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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 121 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LUMBAGO , a See also:

TERM

term in See also:

MEDICINE

medicine applied to a painful ailment affecting the muscles of the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

PART

part of the back, generally regarded as of rheumatic origin. An attack of lumbago may occur alone, or be associated with See also:

RHEUMATISM (from Gr. /56µa, flux)

rheumatism in other parts of the See also:

BODY

body. It usually comes on by a seizure, often sudden, of See also:

pain in one or both sides of the small of the back, of a severe cutting or stabbing See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, greatly aggravated on See also:

MOVEMENT

movement of the body, especially in attempting to rise from the recumbent posture and also in the acts of See also:

DRAWING

drawing a deep breath, coughing or See also:

SNEEZING (0. Eng. fneosung, from fneosan, to sneeze, cf. Dutch fniezen, allied to the obsolete neeze, and ultimately to be referred to root seen in Gr. irveiv, to breathe; the initial s is due to association with numerous words, such as snort, snuff, snor

sneezing. So intense is the suffering that it is See also:

apt to suggest the existence of inflammation in some of the neighbouring See also:

INTERNAL

internal See also:

ORGANS

organs, such as the kidneys, bowels, &c., but the See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of the symptoms specially characteristic of these latter complaints, or of any See also:

GREAT

great constitutional disturbance beyond the pain, renders the diagnosis a See also:

MATTER

matter of no great difficulty. Lumbago seems to be brought on by exposure to See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold and See also:

DAMP

damp, and by the other exciting causes of rheumatism. Sometimes it follows a See also:

STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain of the muscles of the loins. The attack is in See also:

general of See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short duration, but occasionally it continues for a See also:

long See also:

time, as a feeling of soreness and stiffness on movement. The treatment includes that for rheumatic affections in general (see RHEUMATISM) and the application of See also:

LOCAL

local remedies to allay the pain.

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