MERALGIA PARAESTHETICA

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It is with considerable reluctance that I venture to speak of so commonplace a topic as meralgia paraesthetica. The subject, however, is not without its clinical and academic interest and merits extended discussion in view of the vague causes that have been assigned as being responsible for the so-called meralgic syndrome. From a clinical point of view, in particular, the subject deserves serious consideration since a considerable number of patients with meralgia paraesthetica are constantly coming under observation and are appealing for relief from their distressing symptoms. Definitely to establish the etiology of this disturbance—which up to the present apparently has not been done—will in a great measure serve as a basis for rational therapeutic measures. It is with this purpose in view that the clinical aspects of the affection and its etiologic relationship to ostearthritis of the spinal vertebrae—which I have ventured to establish—have been studied. Originally described by

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