She endured great suffering from inflammation of the sciatic nerve, and was entirely disabled from labor for months.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland
Milk, bacteria in, 22, 33-39, 308, 309; digestion of, 14, 17; fuel value of, 28-31; inspection of, 34, 38, 39, 78; stations, 30, 92. Mosquitoes, 302, 303. Mouth, 7, 8, 9; in speaking and singing, 274-276; infection from, 285; breathing, 253, 256, 257, 283. Mucous membrane, 14, 110, 118, 255, 256, 275. Mucus, 255. Mumps, 290. Muscles, 202-209; and nerves, 220-227; controlling hair, 171; disorders of, 229, 230, 233, 234; exercise of, 241-248; in breathing, 138. See also 7, 12, 13, 15, 214, 261, 262. Myopia, 262. Myosin, 28. Nails, 172-174. See also 70, 188, 189. Narcotics, 90, 97, 237, 238. Nerves, and heart, 126-128; and muscles, 203, 220-227; auditory, 266; optic, 260; sciatic, 222, 223, 224; sensory and motor, 220; spinal, 220, 221. Nervous system, 216-227; alcohol and, 97-103, 239; development of, 167; disorders of, 235-240; effects of disease on, 238; eyes and, 264; fatigue and, 241-243; tobacco and, 105, 106. Nettle-rash.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
While the apparatus was being used to produce a series of sparks, a laboratory assistant, without thinking of any possible results, touched with the point of a scalpel the sciatic nerves of one of the animals.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh