An essay on neuralgia spasmodica, or tic douloureux : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by John Campbell.

  • Campbell, John, 1784-1867.
Date:
1823
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Credit: An essay on neuralgia spasmodica, or tic douloureux : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by John Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the neighbouring and sympathizing branches in the diseased action. Neuralgia also sometimes attacks the nerves of the thigh, leg, arm, and female mamma; and an affection analogous to it is mentioned by Mr Hut¬ chinson, as having been situated in the cutaneous and intercostal nerves of the left side of the body. An instance is recorded by Mr Abernethy, where¬ in it was seated in the ring-finger of the left hand; and one by Sir Everard Home, in which it occupied the nerve of the thumb. The complaint commonly commences with a slight pain in some part of the face, often without any warning, darting along the course of the ra¬ mifications of the nerves, and frequently ascribed to rheumatism, cold, or toothach. In the first stage of the affection, the degree of intensity, and kind of pain, often vary considerably in different cases. Sometimes the pains are from the first acute and lancinating, and shoot with incredible velocity along the branches of the nerves affect¬ ed, and then suddenly cease ; in other cases, the pain is more dull and permanent until the disease be fully formed ; while, in others again, some de¬ gree of tumefaction, and redness of the face, at¬ tended with pain, pulsation of the arteries, and considerable febrile irritation, are the first symp¬ toms which announce the commencement of the complaint.