Constipation in adults and children : with special reference to habitual constipation and its most successful treatment by the mechanical methods / by H. Illoway.

  • Illoway, H. (Henry)
Date:
1897
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Credit: Constipation in adults and children : with special reference to habitual constipation and its most successful treatment by the mechanical methods / by H. Illoway. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In an address before the Medical Society of Prague, Gussenbauer^ stated that latterly he had found that it was not necessary to operate as frequently in cases of trigeminal neuralgia as he had formerly believed. In twenty-eight cases of this form of neuralgia — cases of central origin being, of course, excluded — he had oper- ated only four times. He had found that a methodical treatment, with a view to a restoration of the normal functioning of the bowels, is the best method of curing obstinate and painful neuralgic affections. The following very interesting case reported by him is excerpted here in brief. Case 39. Mrs. , oet. forty-two. She was married at eighteen. After her last confinement her menses became irregular, she had fluor albus, and was generally invalided. She was treated with cauterization ; curetting ; she took cures at various health resorts (Badekuren), but was never com- pletely restored. In the last five years an obstinate constipa- tion had supervened upon her other troubles ; stools every tAVO or three days hard and scibalous. Intermittently purgative diarrhoea. Three years ago she had an attack of trigeminal neuralgia. In 1883 she consulted Bamberger and Nothnagel, and was treated with the usual remedies and relieved. The relief, however, did not last long, the pains returned with increased severity, and she was referred to Professor Albert, who resected the alveolus inferior (nerve). One year and a half later the neuralgia reappeared, the pain recurring every two or three minutes, and lasting about twenty seconds. She came under his [G.'s] care, and he treated her on the Hnes indicated. The constipation was so obstinate in the first two weeks as to require frequent injections. In the second week some remission in intensity and duration of the neuralgic par- oxysms was noted. In the third week the patient suffered 1 Prager medicin. Wochenschrift, 1886.