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124 GASES ILLUSTRATING TEE TREATMENT.
The skin peeled off in large flakes over the gluteal region,
caused by strong applications of iodine tincture. Frictions over
the great sciatic nerve in the gluteal region and all down its
course cause a most severe pain.
The left gluteal region was sunken in ; the muscles were loose
and relaxed.
Progress.—I treated him at once,—in the morning. The
pain was greatly diminished after I had continued for eighteen
minutes.
Feb. 2Zrd. The previous day he was nearly free from pain
until six o’clock in the evening, but it did not then, or in the
night, get nearly so intense as formerly, and therefore he slept
some hours. He found walking a little easier.
FeK 2Uh, 25th. Not treated.
Feb. 26th The improvement on the 23rd had continued.
Feb. 2^th. Had felt very much better during yesterday, and
slept well during the night. After the treatment he walked
away unassisted, and held himself fairly straight. He used the
left leg well.
March 1st. He does not feel any pain during the day, if he
keeps quiet ; when he walks, he feels some in the gluteal region.
Walks with a long step. He feels a little weak at the hip-joint,
and therefore he does not trust himself to walk much ; holds
himself more erect ; can stand about for a long time without
experiencing pain ;
sleeps as soundly as when he was com-
pletely well.
March Uh. Yesterday he walked for twenty minutes in the
forenoon, and twenty in the evening, in one stretch, without
feeling any pain.
March 6th. He can walk without a stick, and with a long
stride. Walked for about an hour.
March 1th. Started active movements.
March 9th. Had the day before gone down one flight of stairs,
and walked for an hour in the forenoon and one in the after-
noon ; had subsequently felt a little pain in tlie evening, but it
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