A dissertation on the treatment of morbid local affections of nerves ... / by Joseph Swan.

  • Swan, Joseph, 1791-1874.
Date:
1820
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    and the stump healed very well; a clear proof that though the nerve was enlarged, it was not diseased; but that the enlargement, as well as the pain, proceeded from the ulcerated state of the parts in the leg. When a disease has existed in the hip joint a long time, do not the nerves become en- larged ? If they do, is not this the cause of an issue keeping up the irritation, and nearly the same symptoms, when the disease or in- flammation of the joint has gone off? To shew further how violent the pain is when the nerves are in a state of ulceration, I shall introduce the following extract from a case* related by Morgagni, of an aneurism in the right groin, which extended backwards so much as to produce an ulceration of the sciatic nerve. In the last month the pains became most severe, not only in the tumour, but sometimes beneath the internal malleolus ; in which place only, violent as the pains were, the foot was sensible, being in every other part deprived of feeling and motion. In all this month he nei- ther had an interval of ease nor any sleep until his strength failed; then for some days he lay half asleep, and so died. * Morgagni de Causis et Sedibus Morboruni.