A treatise on neuralgia / By Richard Rowland.

  • Rowland, Richard, -1854.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgia / By Richard Rowland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with other painful affections, such as gout, rheu- matism, &c.* It was not until the middle of the last century that Neuralgia became the subject of minute observation, and obtained a separate description. This investigation was first excited by the publica- tion of several excellent papers on tic-douloureux ; subsequently, the disease was observed in nerves of other parts of the body, and the subject has been eradually advancing in interest and importance until the present day. Nosotocy.—The Neuralgie are not placed in a separate class in the nosologies of Sauvages and Cullen, but are arranged by these authors under several orders. Pinelt places Neuralgia in the third order of his fourth class, Neuroses,{ and gives it the following definition :— “ Douleur vive et déchirante, avec des élance- mens, et des tiraillemens successifs, sans chaleur, sans rougeur, sans tension et gonflement apparens. La siege de la douleur est fixe sur un tronc ou. sur une branche du nerf, et elle semble s’elancer du point primitivement affecté sur toutes ses ramifications.” Dr. Good places the disease as the sixth genus of his fourth class, Neurotica. He describes it as follows :— “¢ Acute sensibility and lancinating pain in the course of one or more branches of nerves in an organ; mostly with irregular motion of the * See Neuralgia facialis. + Nosographie Philosoph, vol. IIT. { Lesions du sentiment et du mouvement sans inflammation, ni lesion de structure.
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