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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    affection, in others differ from it very ma¬ terially. The first of these writers describes it as having been very prevalent at Salz¬ burg: but the pain was periodical, recurring once in twenty-four hours ; often remaining for several hours at a time, and then sud¬ denly departing. I should, however, rather suppose these to be cases of hemicrania, which has, in many instances, been observed to attack the patients periodically, and to yield to the bark.—In the cases recorded by Hartenkeil, we are informed that the occasional causes were, exposure to cold and moist air, caries of the teeth, the use of hot drinks and soups. The seat of the disease was in the ear, teeth, temples, and os frontis: the proximate cause he imagined to be a gouty principle — principe arthritique. — These cases were cured by the bark and opium in large doses. But those who are familiar