Tic doloureux : its causes, symptoms, and treatment / by William Morgan.

  • Morgan, William
Date:
1856
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Credit: Tic doloureux : its causes, symptoms, and treatment / by William Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sons of a nervous temperament, and is indicated in those cases of tic which assume an intermittent type, and where the opthal- mic division of the fifth pair is more particularly affected, such as deep seated, digging, boring pains in the substance of the eye, extending into the brain, and followed by a feeling which drives one almost to despair; the eyeball feels too large for the socket, while the slightest movement of the orbital and facial muscles greatly increases the intensity of the pain; the blood vessels of the sclerotic are highly injected ; luminous rays flash before the sight; lacrymation is profuse, acrid, and smarting; pulsating and lancinating pains in the forehead and malar hone, which are highly sensitive to the touch; the pains appear on the left side, and are frequently attended by anguish and un- easiness about the heart. Cucumis Colocynthis (Colocynth or Bitter cucumber).— Although the majority of the profession have limited their experience to the well known purgative properties of this drug, still history relates a few authorities who have prescribed it with good results in various derangements of the nervous system, such as epilepsy, melancholia, mania, sciatica, &c. In the hands of the homoeopathist it is of infinite service in a variety of diseases, and amongst them is that of tic douloureux. It is best suited for persons of a sthenic, bilious, choleric, and melancholy temperament, likewise those of a lax and scrofulous constitution, and in those cases where the cause may be traced to sudden fits of anger, mortification, and chagrin; when the attack comes on with a kind of itching, tingling sensation in the forehead, followed by intense, tearing, burning stitching pains, attacking more frequently the left side of the face, and extending to the head, temple, molar teeth, as well as behind the ear; the regions corresponding to the pain are red and swollen, and highly sensitive to the touch. Lycopodii pollen.—A yellowish, dust-like powder, collected from the ears of a ci7ptogamous plant, the Lycopodium clavatum (wolf s foot,), which grows in the rugged and mountainous forests of Eussia and Finland. Very little importance had been attached to this vegetable production in any age beyond its use as a substitute for magnesia or liquorice powder in wrapping up c 2
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