An essay on neuralgia ... / [John William Boyles Murray].

  • Murray, John William Boyles, -1818.
Date:
1816
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Credit: An essay on neuralgia ... / [John William Boyles Murray]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    p+ - 57 nerve. ‘Fhe point must then be elevated a lit- tle, though it must not pass through the skin from beneath; by a little rubbing motion with one finger upon the point of the knife, at the same time cuttmg gently with the knife, the nerve will be divided. As a considerable branch of the internal maxillary artery accompanies the infra-or- bital nerve, its division will be shown by a copious arterial haemorrhage; and a_pecu- liar acute pain accompanies the section of the ble to the operator, between cutting a nerve, and any other soft solid. The upper lip must. now be examined by touch. If the patient ac- knowledge a destruction of sensibility, the sur- geon may withdraw his bistoury ; otherwise, the cutting must be repeated, until from numbness, he is satisfied that the nerve is divided. By asking the question previously to withdrawing the knife, the patient has no reason to conceive that any disappointment attended the first at- tempt, and the repetition of incisions he may suppose to belong regularly to the operation. Being certain that the nerve is thoroughly di- vided at the first point of section, make two or three incisions through it lower down ; and thus endeavour, as Dr. Jones expresses it, to ‘* insu- renthesis,) with respect to the common senso- —