Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — Sciatica Cured by Manage. [ARTICLE]

Sciatica Cured by Manage.

Prof. Max Schuler, of Berlin, is convinced of the superiority of massages over other measures employed in the treatment of sciatica, and relates his experience of fifteen cases—all in males, and except in one or two instances (which were rheumatic) due to exposure to cold. Most of the cases were dealt with from the first by massage; but in a few instances electricity, vapor baths, etc., had been fruitlessly employed prior to coming under his care. The modus operandi is as follows: The patient lies on the unaffected side, with knees and hips slightly flexed. The course of the sciatic nerve is rubbed from below upward, partly with both thumbs, partly with the ball of the little finger or thumb; sometimes struck with the closed fist, sdmetimes the muscular mass over the nerve pressed and kneaded with both hands. The pain evoked by these manipulations soon passes away, and after a short time becomes less and less at each sitting. The neuralgic pains very soon abate, diminishing after a severe and painful massage, then recurring with less severity, and gradually disappearing entirely. The power of walking improves after each sitting.—27ic /.uncet The man who fell out of his hunk on board ship explained that liii black eye was a berth-mask.