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Horses suffering with pleurisy, pleurodynia, or rheumatism, and other affections accompanied with much pain, will grunt when moved, or when the pain is aggravated, but grunting under these circumstances does not justify the term of "grunter" being applied to the horse, as the grunting ceases when the animal recovers from the disease that causes the pain High blowing._--This term is applied to a noisy breathing made by some horses.— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The group includes lumbago, stiff-neck, and pleurodynia--conditions which have this in common, that sudden and severe pain is excited by movement of the affected part.— Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
The flying darts of pain in the chest (pleurodynia) are to be regarded as neuralgic in character 266 MOTHERS' REMEDIES Symptoms.--The pain is usually very severe, especially on movement of the intercostal (between the ribs) muscles.— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
The same line of treatment, hot and cold applications, can be given for pain in the chest muscles (pleurodynia) and lumbago A MOTHERS' REMEDY for Stiff Neck.--Hot Salt and Oil of Sassafras.--"If troubled with stiff neck, fill a bag with hot salt and sleep on it, or rub the neck with oil of sassafras which, by the way, is also excellent for lumbago and to scatter, not cure, rheumatism pains PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Rheumatism.--Preventive.--Avoid exposure as stated for other rheumatism.— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
In case the thoracic muscles are affected, it is known as _pleurodynia_.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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