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

  • Murray, John William Boyles, -1818.
Date:
1816
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    63. _A gentleman aged about fifty, having had Neural- gia for four years, applied to me, in the beginning of the year 1811, for surgical relief. Palliative means having failed, and the disease increasing in violence, | recommended the operation as the best, and only re- maining resource. I divided the infra-orbital nerve of his right cheek. The paroxysms continued for a day or two as frequent and violent as before the operation : but in a week it entirely left him. In about four months, the pain began to return, and increased in vio- lence from time to time, but did not equal its former severity, till about six months since, when it became more severe than ever. About three months ago I repeated the operation on the same nerve: the pain went off gradually in about a week, and he says the last operation is by far the most successful. - In 1811, I divided the right infra-orbitary nerve for a lady, who had been labouring under severe Neu- ralgia for two or three years. She experienced no immediate relief; on the contrary, the paroxysms ap- peared to be increased in frequency, and aggravated in violence, for several days: they then began to decline, and had entirely left her about the twelfth day. I believe the disease has never returned. | - On that highly respectable physician, and victim to Neuralgia, Dr. Jones of this city, I have operated about eleven times, and in every instance with the most perfect success. - After having been afflicted with this nee disease for seven or eight years, and having exhausted all the resources of the Materia Medica to no purpose, the Doc- tor at last yielded to my frequent and earnest impor- tunities, and allowed me to divide the right infra-orbital