A vindication of Read's patent syringe : against interested opposition and unphilosophical objections, with professional testimonials of its superior utility, and directions by which its employment is rendered easy and certain.

  • Read, John, 1760-1847
Date:
1826
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Credit: A vindication of Read's patent syringe : against interested opposition and unphilosophical objections, with professional testimonials of its superior utility, and directions by which its employment is rendered easy and certain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Tin's symptom of deranged action in the stomach, liver, or bowels, (than which there is, perhaps, none of greater import- ance,) appears, in many instances, to be nothing else than the first stage of tic douloureux of some part of the head or face; and l feel warranted in stating further, that a lie, or painful af- fection of the nerves, external to the bones of the cranium, will be found, mostly, to follow those acute and intense headaches, arising from indigestion, which, in their progress, have caused affections of some part of the internal structure of the head, that have afterwards yielded to an appropriate and vigorous treatment. My experience in complaints of the stomach during the last ten years, has furnished me with more than one example to il- lustrate the above practical position ; but the object of my present communication being merely to call the attention of the profession to the parental connexion that exists between head- ache and tic douloureux, and not to enumerate the result of private and public practice, for the sake of numbers,—I deem it proper to confine myself to the narrative of one case only of severe and protracted headache, terminating in the latter dis- ease. it has been my study to give the details of this narrative from written notes taken in the course of this complaint, in order to render it as much as possible practically useful. A young lady, aged eighteen, moving in the first circles of society, and consequently leading what is called a fashionable life, tall, well made, and free from every (even the most distant) constitutional blemish, cither transmitted or acquired; possess- ing a superior mind, and the most amiable disposition ; was placed under my care on the '28th of October, ]82ty in conse- quence of severe headache, which had come on almost immedi- ately after leaving London, at the termination of a very busy season, during which she had largely partaken in the bustling recreations proper for her age. This headache was at first dis- regarded by the patient, who had seldom or never been heard to complain of illness ; but the visible effects of its frequent le- turns on the expression of her countenance, and other appear- ances, led to an inquiry, the result of which was a determination on the part of the mother to consult me. I had had the honour of attending, the year before, in conjunction with 3ii Henry Halford, a younger sister of the patient, who had also been labouring for some time under a very distressing headache, arising from indigestion; but who, through the care and assi- duity of that eminent physician, more than from any feeble effort of mine, had completely recovered. Ibis fact, coupled with another much more important,— namely, the almost sud- den death of another daughter a few years before (as 1 under- stood), consequent on some affection of the head, tern er
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