Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1886 — Sciatica Relieved by Cocaine. [ARTICLE]

Sciatica Relieved by Cocaine.

Dr. W. B. Menz, of Vidalia, Uh., writes to the Medical Record that he was called to see a lady 55 years of age, who had been a constant sufferer from sciatica for ten years. The pain was very severe, and extended along the entire length of the nerve. She has run the whole gamut of anti-neu-ralgic remedies, and had never obtained anything more than very transitory relief. Having with him a vial of a 4 per cent, solution of cocaine hydrochlorate, Dr. Menz determined to try the efficacy of a subcutaneous injection. The hypodermie needle was inserted deeply over the sciatic foramen, and about twenty drops of the solution were passed into the tissues. The pain ceased almost immediately, and during the six weeks that have since elapsed has not returned, although there has been no further treatment, and one injection only was practiced. The relief given by other remedies had never been of more than from two to four hours’ duration. — Scientific American. Mr. G. E. Reardon, Baltimore, Md., Commissioner of Deeds for all the States, suffered for a long time with rheumatism, which yielded promptly to St. Jacobs Oil.