An attack of lumbago may occur alone, or be associated with rheumatism in other parts of the body.
Lumbago seems to be brought on by exposure to cold and damp, and by the other exciting causes of rheumatism.
My lumbago was bad while you was away; but it's better, I'm thankful to say.
He was a prisoner with lumbago for the next fortnight, and even the most sincere interest in some one else's spiritual welfare cannot tempt a man out of the house when he is bent almost double with lumbago.
But our worthy friend soon applied a cataplasm to my lumbago more effectual than any of Sandy Woodyard's; for in two minutes I was sprawling.
In lumbago the patient should remain in bed and have the back ironed with a hot flatiron, the skin being protected by a piece of flannel.
Now I have the lumbago, with very little for it, and had I not come here I should be regretting the loss of ten times as much as I have found, with no thought of the lumbago thereby avoided.
When I get up I can hardly stand steady, andlumbago has crept upon me unawares.
A tea is made from the root for lumbago and some other kinds of rheumatic pains in the back.
Niggerdemos thought de good Lord would cure him of de lumbago in his back.
Niggerdemos was sho' cured of de lumbago but sycamores been blistered ever since.
Lumbago seems to make a body garrulous--but you'll forgive it.
Lord Melbourne's lumbago is somewhat better to-day but not much.
Mr. O'Hagan remembered how, when suffering from lumbago himself, the friction with turpentine had left his back sore and smarting for days.
I think if you send your doctor to him, you will find that he suffers not from lumbago but from shot wounds.
Talking of that, her lumbago had set in worse than ever since the frost had come on, and her doctor had had the impudence to tell her that her liver was deranged, whereas, she knew it proceeded from cold in the small of her back.
Lumbago differs from both paralysis and cramp of the lower back in that it is not chiefly nervous, as these are, but is a trouble in the muscular substance itself.
Those who are exposed, as coachmen are, and subject to lumbago and other troubles, will find a flannel band work wonders.
This fact, with the characteristic shrinking from any movement, distinguishes lumbago from neuralgia and from abscess.
All ages are liable to its occurrence, but the part affected varies with the time {75} of life, children and young adults being much more subject to torticollis, and older persons to lumbago and general rheumatism of the limbs.
When this inaction continues without a consequent renewal or increase of activity, the disease becomes chronical, and forms the lumbago frigida, or irritativa, described in Class I.
I have given above a dram of it twice a day floating on a glass of water in chronic lumbago without this effect, and the patient gradually recovered.
It is distinguished from the lumbago or sciatica, as these latter are seldom attended with vomiting, and have pain on the outside of the thigh, sometimes quite down to the ankle or heel.
If I were not crippled with this lumbago I would go down and fire her out of the house.
This clinical term is applied to a group of affections of which lumbago is the best-known example.
The pain is most marked on rising from the stooping or sitting posture, and may extend down the back of the hip, especially if, as is commonly the case, lumbago and gluteal fibrosis coexist.
The Judge was deeply desirous of knowing why Mrs. Austin's lumbago cure should be kept in the office, within reach of unwary pets.
The box had contained a prescription forlumbago which Doctor Conrad had given his mother.
If he does, we shall have to explain why he has not had an attack of lumbago since.
I watched the shearing proceed to the lumbago stage, but I didn't interfere.
The Colonel is a shrewd judge of how far he can go in shearing a lamb, and when he sees signs that the victim is getting bare in spots and is about ready to stop betting with him, he cleans up all the spare fleece with the lumbago trick.
Archie MacBride says it wasn't half as sharp as the lumbago trick which the Colonel worked on him as well as several of the other young members.
Oh, Colonel Jimmy is due for another attack of lumbago this afternoon.
Lumbago was his alibi, and he worked it overtime for our benefit.
It might not have been so much, only on every tee the Colonel whined about his lumbago and got me in such a state of mind that I couldn't keep my eye on the ball to save my life.
In order to get all the good out of this lumbago treatment," said he, "it ought to go the full eighteen holes.
All the time he was dressing he grunted and groaned and rubbed his back and cursed the lumbago bitterly.
I couldn't resist the temptation to inquire after his lumbago occasionally, but it was next to impossible to hurt his feelings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumbago" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
