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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    the orbit, or even before the frontal enters the orbit, a place in which the frontal nerve would not be cut. Assuming, then, that Charles Bell cut the supraorbital branch, has he observed one part of the phenomena seen by me, namely, that paralysis, as regards motion, did not supervene ? But I add, that there wTas not even anesthesia; and I believe that Charles Bell saw the same thing, but suppressed all mention of it, because such a fact would be opposed to his hypothesis. His undertaking was to demonstrate that the supraorbital branch, like the other branches of the fifth pair, was sentient and not motive; he proved by this fact that it was not motive] but it does not absolutely follow that it is sentient; the presence of anesthesia was required to show the supraorbital branch to be sentient. Now, after its cutting, there was not anesthesia, and the author is silent on this part of the phenomena, because the fact contradicted his hypothesis. I content myself with adducing the fact; and I say, that cutting entirely through the supra- orbital branch brought on neither paralysis nor 8