INTRASPINAL (SUBARACHNOID) INJECTION OF ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL

28 July 1934

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 103 (4) , 242-243
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750300016006

Abstract

"To the lay mind, carcinoma denotes pain."¹Other diseases have just as long a period of disability with no hope in many cases of averting a fatal outcome; e. g., heart disease, chronic arthritis, tuberculosis; but they are not the scourge that cancer is because friends and relatives do not see the months of severe uncontrollable pain and distress that are so common in terminal cancer cases. In 1931 Dogliotti²reported that he had relieved forty cases of pain in the lower part of the back, the pelvis and the legs due to various conditions (chronic arthritis, sciatica, abdominal tabetic crises and the like) by intraspinal injections of absolute alcohol. Yeomans¹reported its use in seven cases of malignancy presenting lower abdominal and rectal pain. I have used the method in eleven cases. My purpose in presenting the results in this small series is that the field

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