Opinions on the causes and effects of the disease denominated tic douloureux; deduced from practical observations of its supposed origin in lateral pressure, distortion, or undue contact in the teeth. But more particularly those nearest the maxillary sinus, and thence conveying its distressing sensations to the more distant extremities of the system. With annexed cases ... as also a ... mode of ascertainment and cure / By Charles Bew.

  • Bew, Charles.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Opinions on the causes and effects of the disease denominated tic douloureux; deduced from practical observations of its supposed origin in lateral pressure, distortion, or undue contact in the teeth. But more particularly those nearest the maxillary sinus, and thence conveying its distressing sensations to the more distant extremities of the system. With annexed cases ... as also a ... mode of ascertainment and cure / By Charles Bew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    impossibility (or at least, where life and health exert their sway,) of pleasurable, or painful contact, being applied to the extremest point of our system, unaccom- panied by a corresponding sensation in the sensorium, too often exemplified in the punishment attendant on plucking a rose; the pricked finger of the inattentive school- miss while marking her sampler; or the dull dunee, whose cries at castigation, for time mis-applied, although expressed as near the sensorium as possible, are nervously ex- cited in a diametrically opposite direction. From these observations, we may be easily induced to give credence to the assertion, that, deprived of the nervous system, the rest of the animal economy, (no matter how important) would be value- less, and that by their assistance, both in surface and centre, we are brain all over, for if the contents of these white cords be not of the same substance with the brain; yet being the conveyors of its conceptions, and communications, in manner incomprehensible to human calculation; they are to all in-