Cases of tic doloureux successfully treated / By Benj. Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Benjamin.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Cases of tic doloureux successfully treated / By Benj. Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    buted to those parts. Sometimes the fore¬ head and temple, and inner canthus of the eye, and even the globe of the eye itself, are first affected, from the first branch of the fifth pair, the ophthalmic branch being the subject of the disease. And as there are some cases recorded in which the pa¬ tient suffered much from an effusion of scalding tears, it might probably arise from that branch of the ophthalmic which goes to the lachrymal gland being affected. The two other chief branches of the ophthal¬ mic, which are, however, very rarely the seat of this affection, are the frontal and the nasal; the first of which is distributed to the muscles surrounding the eye, and the muscles and integuments of the forehead; whilst the nasal branch passes obliquely through the orbit, giving off one or two twigs to the fasciculi of the ciliary nerves ; and then is continued between the supe¬ rior oblique and adductor muscles, passes