Hypodermic injections in the treatment of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and other diseases / by Antoine Ruppaner.

  • Ruppaner, Antoine, 1825-1892.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Hypodermic injections in the treatment of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and other diseases / by Antoine Ruppaner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The attacks recur regularly every three weeks. The pain commences at the inner, sometimes at the outer, angle of the right orbit; passing up along the suture uniting ' the parietal bones, and extending down into the neck. I threw the injection, as usual in quan- tity, into the cellular tissue of the back of the neck, where she said the pain was most violent at the time. In an hour she was at ease. The following night, when called to relieve her again, she was soon made comfortable by the same measure. After repeating the operation six times, there was no return of the hemicrania for twenty-three weeks. In fourteen months, I had only twice to resort to the same measures. Case XVIII. — Hemicrania, the result of expo- sure. Mr. W , conductor on the Metropol- itan Railroad, aged thirty-five, strong and