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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    Disappointed in the effects of this plan, as soon as the state of her mouth, and of her general constitution would admit of the remedy, I began a course of the arsenical solution, by giving ten drops three times a day in a teacupful' of gruel, increasing the dose one drop every day at each dose. I was wholly disappointed in the efficacy of this powerful agent, as it did not appear to possess any authority over the disease, even when exhibited in doses of twenty-five drops three times a day : the tortures of my suffering patient were undiminished. In this unpleasant state of things, I had recourse to the ferri carbonas, half a drachm of which I began to administer three times a day, mixed in honey. During the first seven days, but little benefit was per¬ ceptible. I then increased the dose to one drachm twice a day, and after the first three days of this increased quantity, a very sen- e 4