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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    velocity of the pain as it shoots along the affected parts. In general, as has already been remarked, the shock is mstantaneous, but the painful sensation occasionally creeps slowly along the nerve, and, indeed, may be observed of every degree of rapidity. The pain sometimes flies from one situation to another, attacking either a remote part, or the same set of nerves on the opposite side of the body; or it may pass from an external to an in- ternal organ. These transitions are often per- formed with wonderful rapidity ;—the disease is rarely observed in more than one situation at the same time. The space occupied by the pain is also various. It is sometimes diffused over a large surface, but at others is confined to a point, which might be covered with the finger, and in general, appears to be more severe, in proportion as it is circumscribed. The parts through which the pains shoot are | sometimes exquisitely tender, but are frequently affected with numbness. In those cases where the pain is spread over a large surface, it is generally described as aching, but in addition to this, the more common lancinating pain darts through the affected part during the paroxysms. When the seat of the Neuralgia is near a se- creting organ, the latter is often stimulated to increased action; a superabundant quantity of its natural fluid is separated, and with this symptom the paroxysm usually terminates. In general, the seat of Neuralgia presents no
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