SCIATICA CURES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 146, 5 June 1936, Page 15

SCIATICA CURES

New Hope for Thousands

DOCTOR’S CLAIM

(Own Correspondent—Bv Air Mail) LONDON, May 14.

Sciatica can now be cured, "almost immediately," by an inexpensive treatment, which has been successfully tried.

This consoling news for thousands of sufferers was given yesterday in an address by Dr. Gerald Slot to the International Congress of Physical Medicine in London.

"A cure is often effected overnight,’’ the doctor claimed, adding that successful results had .been obtained in twentythree of the twanty-four cases treated at the Royal Waterloo Hospital, London, B.E.

The treatment, he explained, was painless and without risk. First was a carefully made diagnosis, including X-ray examination. Next the patient was injected with a mixture of evipan anaesthesia and strile saline containing 1 per cent of novocaine. "This is immediately followed," continued the doctor, "by manipulation, in which .the spine is extended and both legs and thighs are fully flexed alternately, with tho pelvis fixed while the patient is lying down. "Relief occurs within twenty-four hours, and has been complete with the majority of our cases. A few have required a second injection at an interval of three months before final relief was obtained. The cases on which it has been used have all been refractory cases which have resisted the usual forms of treatment.”

An official of the Royal Waterloo Hospital said yesterday that sufferers should apply for details of tho treatment only through their family doctors. Dr. Slot, who was born in Johannesburg, is a leading authority on rheumatism. He is tho physician in charge of tlie L.C.C. Rheumatism Supervisory Centre, and tho consulting physician at the Royal Waterloo Hospital and the Hammersmith Hospital, among others.

Ho is also the author of standard papers on the treatment of in children.