A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Thomas Pridgin Teale
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1829
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which unite with them; and that if the spine be exa- mined, more or less pain will commonly be felt by the patient on the application of pressure about or between those vertebree from which such nerves emerge. “This spinal affection may, perhaps, be considered as the consequence of diseases, but of its existence at their commencement any one may satisfy himself; and this circumstance, combined with the success which has attended the employment of topical applications to the tender parts about the vertebrae, appears to indicate that the cause may exist there. Prejudice sometimes operates against the idea of connexions so remote; but in many instances patients are surprised at the discovery of ten- derness in a part, of whose implication in disease they had not the least suspicion.” Dr. Brown* proposes, in his Essay, to offer a few observations on the symptoms and treatment of some diseases of the spine, which he considers to be by no means of rare occurrence, but which appear. to be occa- sionally overlooked or neglected. ‘I allude (says Dr. B.) chiefly to those morbid affections of the spinal nerves so often met with in young females, and occasionally also, although much less frequently, in women of more ad- vanced. life, and in males. ‘‘In most instances, certainly, this irritated state of the nerves is not entitled to the name of a serious dis- ease, since the symptoms are not acute, and since they are easily removed or prevented ; but when it is allowed * On Irritation of the Spinal Nerves, by Thomas Brown, M. D,, Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow. Glasgow Medical Journal, May, 1828. Dr. Brown adds this note :—* Five years since, viz. in January, 1823, the following essay, nearly, was read to the Medical Society of this city.”
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