Abstract
The condition to which I am calling attention is a clinical entity that seems to be generally unrecognized, though it is of fairly common occurrence and is of practical importance. Traumatic neuritis may be produced by a single or repeated injury to a nerve trunk, and the condition that I present belongs to the latter group. The intercostal nerves are shielded from injury by intact ribs except when they pass beyond the tips of the last few ribs. At this point, the eleventh and twelfth especially, may be injured in various ways. The commonest method of nerve injury to these last two nerve trunks is by the repeated squeezing of the nerve between the tips of the ribs and the wing of the pelvis. This repeated trauma is seen in short waisted persons or in those who have an unusually long eleventh or twelfth rib. The pain is of a
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