On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux, sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt.

  • Hunt, Henry, -1877.
Date:
1844
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    nature, to which Dr. Pritchard more particularly referred. From carefully attending to the history of nume- rous cases of tic douloureux, and endeavouring to ascertain the cause of their occurrence, it has appeared to me that diseases which have preceded the complaint, and to which it may be pretty cor- rectly traced, have been those of a class which either suddenly debilitate the body, as it were by a peculiar poison, or those which undermine the powers of the constitution by a slower but equally effective process. Of the former the influenza is an example. One of the most characteristic fea- tures of that complaint being the early and sudden prostration of the vital powers, of which neuralgic pains are not the unfrequent consequence. Dr. Holland, I believe, was the first if not the only physician who remarked tliis connexion between them. In his ' Essay on the Influenza' his allusion to it is so very clear, that I shall take advantage of it and insert it: Of the diseases consequent upon influenza, if not indeed to be regarded as an integral part of the malady, one of the most fre- quent and remarkable is the tendency to neuralgic intermittent pains and morbid actions in different parts of the body, with periods as regular as those of a common ague, sometimes taking the tertian as well as the quotidian type^ little connexion save