Identifier: nervousmentald00chur (find matches)
Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938, joint author
Subjects: Nervous system
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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). This nerve was observedto be affected seventeen times in 1000 patients in the lying-in hospitalof Copenhagen, in all subsequent to parturition.1 The external cutaneous branch of the anterior crural supplyingthe outer side of the thigh seems especially subject to sensory disturb-ances. In gout, alcoholism, tobacco excesses, and sometimes as a linger-ing feature in multiple neuritis, this area is sometimes exquisitely hy-peresthetic, so that the patient finds it inconvenient even to allow theweight of the trousers upon the skin, or is conscious of an acute ting-ling when he passes his hand over the thigh? or complains of variouspersistent paresthetic sensory disturbances. This condition is calledmeralgia paresthetica and may be due to defective return circulationassociated with varicose veins and hemorrhoids. It is usually a neuritisand the nerve has been found thickened at the point where it crossesthe pelvic brim. 1 Centralbl. f. Gyniik., No. 25, 1901. . ■■ I L1URAR3 ■ ■■
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