Neuralgia of the inferior maxillary nerve / by John Lizars.

  • John Lizars
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[1821]
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    NEURALGIA OF THE INFERIOR MAXILLARY NERVE. By JOHN LIZARS, F. R. S. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AND LECTURER ON ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, EDINBURGH. [From Edin. Medical & Surgical Journal, Yol. XVII. p. 529.]] ** Operations have come at last to represent the whole science. ” John Bell. HHhis case I am induced to communicate, as it resisted all the remedies employed but the knife, and as the nerve was cut where it enters the osseous canal; a point at which I do not find any author on the subject mentions the operation to have been performed. On the contrary, it is considered by some as impracticable, by others as hazardous. Neuralgia, from the days of Hippocrates to the present time, has been frequently the' subject of observation. It is a disease of such peculiarity, and so painful in its symptoms, that it could not fail to excite the attention of every one who has witnessed it. Various ingenious theories have been proposed to explain its nature, and still more numerous have been the remedies for its cure. Of all the theories which have been advanced, that of Pouteau appears the most rational, if we divest it of its hu¬ meral pathology. Bobemoreau has published the history of a case of neuralgia of the face, which assumed the intermittent type, and which this physician removed for six months by ad¬ ministering cinchona and opium. Pinel relates another case of a soldier who laboured long under sciatica, having recovered by joining his regiment on a campaign. Neuralgia has been found in the same constitution with hysteria and hypochondriasis. Thouret, Andry, and Heurteloup, cured patients labouring under neuralgia with magnetism. Blunt cured a lady affected with neuralgia with electricity. The infra-orbitary neuralgia presents either the remittent or intermittent type; the latter more frequently. From these facts and observations, as well as the whole histo¬