On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt.

Date:
1844
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    It yielded at length to arsenic; a medicine which not only relieved the pain, but greatly improved and strengthened the general health. The benefit of a temporary removal to a high, dry, and warm situation was invariably and almost immediately perceptible. In the course of a few days, the feelings of languor and debility gave place to that of comparative briskness ; the heavy weight which she had usually over her brow passed away, the complexion became clear, the appetite and di- gestion improved, the neuralgic pains entirely sub- sided, and she was soon enabled to take an amount of exercise to which she had been quite incapable whilst residing in the low, relaxing air surround- ing her own abode. An improvement of this nature invariably occurred whenever she has removed to this kind of bracing air, and the reverse on her return to a humid one. Among many causes by which an attack of pain was provoked, none were more certain than over-exertion; the consequent exhaustion appeared to interrupt all the vital processes ; the stomach was rendered incapable of digestion, the bowels became irregular, and if this exhaustion happened immediately pre- ceding the menstrual period, the monthly relief was interrupted, or the discharge only scantily secreted. Either of these derangements of function pro- duced a return of pain, which did not subside until
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