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Excerpt from Sciatica: A Fresh Study
With considerable diffidence, but with implicit belief in the truth of the views as to the real pathology of sciatica which I shall endeavour to explain, I present this short treatise to the attention of my medical brethren. I am well aware of the difficulties I shall have to encounter in trying to convince them that the current explanation of the symptoms of the disease is wrong, and the one which I suggest right. Heresy must ever be unpopular. The human mind, once broken loose from its accustomed moorings and tossed about on the wide waters of discussion, may drift anywhere. A new pathology necessarily implies a different line of therapeutic application, and treatment from a fresh standpoint. It naturally tends to demolish well-established indications, and to unsettle the ideas of the ordinary steady-going practitioner and consultant.
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