An essay on neuralgia ... / [John William Boyles Murray].

  • Murray, John William Boyles, -1818.
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1816
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    confined to the period of age between the thirtieth and eightieth year; and instances of the disorder being met with at an earlier period of life have but rarely occurred.”— great respect by Heurteloup”, says, that he has seen the disease in young girls of twenty, and even of nme years.” Heurteloup also gives a long and minute account of a Corsican, who was under thirty years of age’. Dr. Dar- win, in his Zoonomia, relates a case unusually severe, and of great extent, in which the patient was between twenty and thirty years of age. Connected with the irregularity of appear- ance as to age and sex, is the uncertainty of the temperament, in aioe a practitioner may ex- pect to meet with Neuralgia. Indeed no habit of body nor of life seems exempt from its attacks: the laborious and the indolent, the phlegmatick and the nervous, the rigid fibre as well as the lax, the thin equally with the fat, the delicate and the robust, are exposed to the excruciating torments of neuralgick affections. The season of the year is also equally inca- pable of regulating its occurrence. h Recueil de la Soc. de Med. de Paris, Tome iv. p. 205. ‘** Cette disser- tation de Fortsmann est savante, pleine d’erudition, et merite de tenir place parm les bons ecrits sur le tic douloureux de la face. | On y trouve des ex- emples de jeunes filles de neuf et de vingt ans attaquées du tic douloureux.” i Essay on Tic douloureux, by Dr. Jackson. New-England Journal, 1815.