A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1867.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The affection of the lumber and sacral portion of the spinal cord often produces a sensation of soreness in the scrotum and neighbouring integuments ; and the lower extremities become the seat of various morbid sensations, spasms, tremors, &c., for the most part re- sem bling those whichhave been described as occurring the upper limbs. The patients also complain of a sense of insecurity or instability in walking; their knees totter, and feel scarcely able to support the weight of the body. In some cases very considerable relief is found from recumbency, the pain frequently being diminished as soon as the patient retires to bed, nl i aga of any paroxysmal remission. ‘This irritation, or subacute inflammatory state of the spinal marrow is not necessarily connected with any deformity of the spine, or disease in the vertebre. It may co-exist with these as well as with any other dis- eases, but it so repeatedly occurs without them, that they cannot be regarded as dependant upon each other. Where, however, inflammation and ulceratién of the vertebra or intervertebral cartilages exist, itis probable they may predispose to, and, in some instances, act as vous structures which they contain; for we not unfre- quently find inflammatory affections of the vertebree in conjunction with symptoms of irritation of the spinal marrow. But these two affections, although co-exist- ing, bear no regular relation to each other; and, during the progress of the vertebral ‘disease, the affection of the nervous structures is subject to great changes and fluctuations. ‘The local remedies employed for arresting the disease in the bones, often alleviate the affection of the spinal marrow at the very commencement of