An essay on neuralgia / by John W.B. Murray.

  • Murray, John W. B. (John William Boyles), -1818.
Date:
1816
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    the medical men of the present day seem to consider Dr. John Fothergill as its principal discoverer. The notices of Neuralgia among modern physicians have been numerous, but none have given a systematick view of it, specifying all the methods of management, and especially, as connected with the various surgical operations now recommended for its relief. The Greeks are perfectly silent concerning it; but it is said to have been mentioned by Rhazes, the celebrated Arabian, whose descrip- tion he acknowledges to have been derived from Simion Seth, physician to an Eastern Emperor, during the eleventh century. Subsequent to this period, Ebr Sina, of the same nation, de- scribed the disease, more fully and with more precision6. From the investigation which has been bestowed on this subject, it appears that, John Hartmann Degener, a physician of Nimeguen, in 1724, is next entitled to the dis- tinction of having given the most circumstantial account of Neuralgia0. Dr. Siebold'', whose a Med. Observ. and Inq. vol. v. b New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, vol. ii. p. 115. Dr. Jack- son on Tic douloureux. c Acta Naturas Curios. De dolore quodam perraro acerboque maxillae sinistra; partes occupante, et per paroxysmos recurrente. vol. i. 347. d Doloris Faciei, morbi rarioris atque atrocis observationibus illustrati, adumbratio Diatribe I. qua exercitationes clinicas in nosocomio juliaeo, ha- bendas indicit G. Ch. Siebold, Dr. Med. Prof. Wirceburgi 1795. Diatribe II. 1797. Translated in the Medical and Physical Journal, No. 30. 2