Word: sciatica
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Cinchophen is a bitter white powder discovered in 1887 and used since 1908 as a treatment for gout, arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica. By 1932 U. S. invalids were annually using 90,000 Ib. of cinchophen and its derivatives...
...Bernheim, Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating stammering and certain hysterical neuroses. Dr. Cannon believes it is useful in treating tetanus, diabetes, prostatic enlargement, menstrual disorders and in relieving the pain of childbirth, pleurisy, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, cancer, ulcers...
Cinchophen. To stimulate the excretion of uric acid and thus to remedy certain states of gout, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica and neuralgia, doctors recently adopted a synthetic drug called cinchophen, made from quinine and carbolic acid. Soon cinchophen users complained of jaundice. Many died, and, upon autopsy, revealed extensive degeneration of the liver. Doctors nevertheless hesitated to abandon this highly useful drug...
Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
...challenge the medical profession to make their tests of our treatment, with all experimental details released, on certain forms of alcoholism, insomnia and sciatica. These are selected because even a medical man should get good results the first time...