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:
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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    makes, being of an unaccountable sense of weakness and inability of exertion. In other cases the tremors have excited alarm; sometimes the neuralgic pain in the scalp, or the fixed pain in the muscles, particularly when it occurs in the intercostal muscles, have sug- gested the idea of serious disease in the brain or in the lungs; and when the pain is seated in the muscles of the abdomen, a fear that some organic disease of the abdominal viscera has taken place, harrasses the mind of the patient. The muscular weakness, in some cases tending to paralysis, often suggests the fear of apoplexy, or paralysis from cerebral disease. The affection is often of very protracted duration, un- dergoing alternate variations from the sanative powers of the constitution, and the different exciting causes of disease. There are many individuals in whom the com- plaint has existed, in varying degrees of intensity, for a series of years, without its real nature having been sus- pected ; the patients and their medical attendants hav- ing regarded it throughout as a rheumatic or a nervous affection. Many individuals, as young females and mothers of families whose domestic duties require the complete exertion of their energies, are often unjustly accused of indolence, when labouring under the state of muscular debility to which I have alluded. They have felt an un- conquerable disinclination to exertion, and a desire for sedentary pursuits, without even themselves being aware of the cause of this inertness. In this complaint, tenderness in the portion of the vertebral column, which corresponds to the origin of the affected nerves, is generally in a striking and un- equivocal manner evinced by pressure. In some in-