Cases of neuralgia spasmodica, commonly termed tic douloureux, successfully treated.

  • Hutchinson, Benjamin.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Cases of neuralgia spasmodica, commonly termed tic douloureux, successfully treated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    considerable diarrhoea, which was restrained by the addition of a few drops of the tinctura opij. His torments, though miti- gated, were still almost intolerable; and I in- creased the quantity of the carbonate of iron to four scruples three times a day, in which quantity he persevered for two months, at which period the violence of the dis- ease began evidently to yield to the influ- ence of the medicine; and after a persever- ance in this increased dose for three months, with some few and short intervals, his pains left him. I have this morning, August 28., seen him, when he favoured me with the outlines of this brief history; and he de- clares that his comforts and his feelings are too great for his description. At some times, though but very seldom, he has very slight sensations, reminding him of his past sufferings, — nothing, however, which he regards, or has the most remote care about.