On myalgia : its nature, causes, and treatment : being a treatise on painful and other affections of the muscular system, which have been frequently mistaken for hysterical, inflammatory, hepatic, uterine, nervous, spinal or other diseases / by Thomas Inman.

  • Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On myalgia : its nature, causes, and treatment : being a treatise on painful and other affections of the muscular system, which have been frequently mistaken for hysterical, inflammatory, hepatic, uterine, nervous, spinal or other diseases / by Thomas Inman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introduction—Muscular affections well kno-wTi in the healthy—Ignored in the delicate—Reason why—The word muscle defined—Probable reason why pain is referred to the fibrous portion—Sensibility of fibrous tissue exalted ui disease—Case of Mr, A. H.—Importance of due recognition of muscular pain—Case of Mrs. J.—Pamiliar examples of muscular pains in the healthy—Cutaneous tenderness or soreness accompanies muscular pain—Truthfuhiess to nature with which patients d escribe muscular pain, though ignorant of its cause—Varieties of muscular pain—Pain is rarely referred to both ends of a muscle at the same time—Cramp—The cii'cumstances under which it comes on— The physical condition of a muscle during myalgia ... 1 CHAPTER II. Unusual exertion defined and explained—Ordinary exertion in the strong is extraordinary in the weak—Formula—Pain probably increases in a progressive ratio—Circumstances under which the power of the muscles is reduced—Influence of consumption, incipient or confirmed —The spirometer a test of muscular power—Transient debility will produce transient muscular pain—Cases—Muscular pains after scarla- tina and fever—Cases, M. J. and James S.—Habitual exercise does not necessarily give strength—Case, Mrs. T.—Remarks on the influence of exercise—If exercise is excessive in proportion to the patient's powers, it is prejudicial and exhaustive . . . . .23 CHAPTER III. Diagnosis of muscular pains, with illustrative cases—After the diagnosis has been arrived at, further inquiry is necessary to ascertain the reason why the muscles are pamfully affected—Interview between doctor and patient described .......... 42 CHAPTER IV. The parts of the body most frequently affected—Occipital headache—■ Insertions of the trapezius—Case, Mr. T.—Lumbar pain improperly