LUMBAGO

is an affection characterised by severe pain in the muscles of the loins. The pain is of sudden onset, and sufficiently severe o3 a rulo to confine the sufferer to bed. It is recognised a an increase of pain on stooping. Tho cause is usually chill. It is uncertain whether it is oi rheumatic origin or not. Labouring men suffer most from it. The treatment is rest, pescarts.| with poultices to the loins, and compound camphor liniment well! rubbed in four times daily. [s. 384]