Tic douloureux, or neuralgia facialis, and other nervous affections : their seat, nature, and cause : with cases illustrating successful methods of treatment / by R.H. Allnatt.

  • Allnatt, R. H. (Richard Hopkins)
Date:
1841
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Credit: Tic douloureux, or neuralgia facialis, and other nervous affections : their seat, nature, and cause : with cases illustrating successful methods of treatment / by R.H. Allnatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will frequently consent with cheerfulness to the most violent remedy that affords the slightest prospect of relief. OF PAROXYSMAL CHARACTER. If it were not for the paroxysmal character some- times assumed by Tic Douloureux, and in other instances its occurring after regular intermissions, during which there are periods of complete cessa- tion from suffering, the patient’s life would, in all probability, more frequently fall a sacrifice than it now does. As it is, these pains may “ quite subdue a powerful frame;”1 and, in some instances, they may “wear out the patient’s health, and destroy him at last.”2 Mr. Swan has endeavoured to ex- plain the cause of this intermittent action. “ It may be,” he says, “ that a nerve cannot at first bear a diseased action without rest [why ?], any more than it can a healthy one; and, therefore, the diseased action, after a certain 1 Bell. 2 Bell's Operative Surgery. i§