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?-1868.
Date:
1834
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    daily more convinced of the importance of the subject, I feel justified in attempting to reduce the facts which my own experience has afforded, in some definite form, and in deducing such practical conclusions as the phenome- na of the various diseases dependant upon the causes ad- verted to, seem to warrant. Mr. R. P. Player,* in his letter to the editor, On Irritation of the Spinal Nerves, dated December 10, 1821, makes the following remarks:—I take the liber- ty to submit to your notice a pathological fact, which has not to the best of my knowledge, been generally remarked, and attention to which, as far as my own ex- perience goes, promises some diminution of those diffi- culties with which the healing art has to contend. Most medical practitioners who have attended to the subject of spinal disease, must have observed that its symp- toms frequently resemble various and dissimilar mala- dies, and that commonly the function of every organ is impaired whose nerves originate near the seat of the disorder. The occurrence of pain in distant parts for- cibly attracted my attention, and induced frequent ex- amination of the spinal column; and after some years' attention, I considered myself enabled to state, that in a great number of diseases, morbid symptoms may be discovered about the origins of the nerves which proceed to the affected parts, or of those spinal branches which unite with them; and that if the spine be examined, more or less pain will commonly be felt by the patient on the application of pressure about or between those vertebrae from which such nerves emerge. This spinal affection may, perhaps, be considered as the consequence of diseases, but of its existence at their Quarterlv Journal of Science, vol. xii. p. 423. A*