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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    or watery fluid to assuage or defend, the parts so suffering by excitement. These observations, although in the present instance pointed peculiarly at the teeth, yet in a philosophical point of view, may be rend- ered comprehensible to the meanest capacity by retrospection, to the tinder-boxr, the re- pitition of blows, inflammation from bruises, or the beneficial furtherance of heat by friction. Tic Douloureux seldom seems to make its attack till that season, or period, in which nature has accomplished the usual compliment of teeth, for the support and service of the masticating system, and is oftentimes solicited, or aided in{its approach by the insufficiency of space in the jaw des- tined for their reception. This observation, is but too often demon- strated by the derangement, and disease of the four teeth alluded to, by the wedge acting addition of the dentes sapientie, or “teeth of wisdom.’ Of the many persons I have seen, and relieved from Tic Douloureux, all were uniform in the description of the darting pams, and uneasy sensations in the vicinity