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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    Pujol gives a very striking picture of a person seized with a paroxysm of this ex¬ cruciating malady ; and as his work is not much known, and is difficult to be obtained in this country, no apology is necessary for giving a short extract. “ When we ob¬ serve a person who actually feels a pretty sharp attack of tic douloureux in the cheek, we see him knit his brows, both the eye¬ lids are strongly compressed, and the com¬ missure of the lips is drawn towards the ear, as in the Sardonian laughter. The lower jaw remains immoveable, and in the same situation in which it was at the mo¬ ment of attack : the respiration is slow, as if suspended ; and often the patient dare not make the least cry, nor utter a. single exclamation. He even seems to dread the slightest motion of the body, and his forced attitudes, and almost ecstatic state, much better express the violence of his pains,