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Sciatica.

The mundane malady sciatica has been known to physicians since antiquity.1 It is pain that radiates from the buttock downward along the course of the sciatic nerve,2 but the term has been used indiscriminately for a variety of back and leg symptoms. Although sciatica has several causes, Mixter and Barr extended previous observations to establish in 1934 that the principal source is compression ...

Sciatica in the Young

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A simple method for motorized alignment of Osmic confocal optics

A system for the remote alignment of X-ray optics has been designed to address safety considerations related to manual optic adjustment. The described system also addresses some of the common problems associated with the alignment process, such as binding of components and the effects of external forces due to user contact that lead to irreproducibility of the process. The system as described s...

Sciatica: A Fresh Study

Following a historical survey of the views generally held regarding the essential lesion underlying sciatica, the writer elaborates his own view that sciatica is really an affection of the hip-joint, rheumatic or gouty in origin. The steps by which he arrives at this opinion are ingenious and reasonable. They are anatomical and clinical, and are fully considered in the book, which should be con...

Lumbago, Sciatica, Etc.