I.—Many cases of pain in the lower back or leg or both, are due to some lesion of one of the lumbar transverse processes.
II.—This lesion consists in pressure upon a nerve cord and results in a condition which should be termed lumbo-sacral neuritis.
III.—The condition may be readily diagnosed, chiefly by the study of definite points of tenderness over certain transverse processes.
IV.—The trouble may be relieved by removing the appropriate process.