A treatise on neuralgic diseases : dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / by Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1868.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases : dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / by Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    doloureux, darting like electricity through the part and through the neighbouring nerves. Case VII. Intercostal Neuralgia. Jan. 1, 1828. I was requested to visit Mr. H., aet. 40, who had been much out of health for several months. He complained of a constant pain in the right side of the chest, occupying the intercostal spaces between the fourth and seventh ribs. These spaces, to the extent of a few inches, were tender on pressure, and the pain was increased by deep inspiration; the intercostal muscles at this part were occasionally affected with spasm. His most intense sufferings, however, were caused by acute pains shooting through this part of the chest, extending to the back, and darting thence towards the shoulder; these pains would sometimes strike through the left side also, and then the chest felt completely encircled by the pain. The dull, fixed pain, was constant during the day, and became a little relieved by recumbency: the darting pains recurred at intervals of a few minute* throughout the day, were less frequent, but occasionally very severe, during the night. He suffered sometimes from similar darting pains, but of less violence, in the scalp. Pulse natural; tongue slightly furred; bowels regular; appetite deficient; occasional flatulence; fre- quent cough, without expectoration; considerable ema- ciation. His symptoms have existed in this degree of severity, above five or six weeks; but for a few months he has been much out of health, and has gradually lost flesh-