On tic douloureux, or neuralgia, together with a few cursory remarks on intermittent fever, and its supposed connexion with the former / by James Heygate.

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1836
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    from the most valuable treatise ever published, will, when he comes into actual practice, find the finely spun class of symptoms constantly varying; for scarcely did there ever exist two cases of the same disease, in which the symptoms, in their minor de- tail, did not in each veiy much vary, requiring a dissimilar plan of proceeding. * Ol)servation, in- deed, is so important, that he who is blindly led by preconceived notions, who does not make the subject- matter of every case, of every visit to a patient, the season for fresh and distinct thought, will be con- stantly eiTing—will find himself prescribing against, instead of for, existing symptoms; and, I would ask, how many are the complaints, where the existing symptoms are the only data upon which our prescrip- tions can be judiciously fonned? Tic Douloureux, in its severest form, is certainly one of the most painful diseases which “ flesh is heir to,” and, to the medical attendant himself, uwhose re- sources are so limited, and whose prospects of cure are, generally speaking, more than doubtful, the watching it through its various stages, is not only un- satisfactory, but peculiarly distressing, especiaUy to the mind of a man imbued with keen sensibility, and whose grand object it is to afford speedy relief to his patients. We are, however, often left to deplore the * When speaking of observation, of course I mean that it should be based upon sound theory, unincumbered by ignorance or prejudice.
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