Volume 2

A probationary essay on tic douloureux : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Robert Nasmyth ... June 1823.

  • Nasmyth, Robert, 1791-1870.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A probationary essay on tic douloureux : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Robert Nasmyth ... June 1823. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at a considerable height above the patient, whose head ought to be inclined over a vessel of ample size, and is to be repeated on every attack of pain, or, what is still better, just before a paroxysm is expected, and it ought to be continued till the teeth knock against each other from the cold. The part is then to be dried and rubbed with a coarse cloth until the reaction of the superficial vessels is thoroughly excited, and the skin be¬ comes very red. Dr Perry does not, however, trust to this alone, but very properly combines with it the employ¬ ment of tonic medicines and other means for strengthening the constitution. It will be found to be of the utmost importance, in the treatment of this disease, to attend, in the first place, to the state of the digestive organs, and the method recommended by Mr Abernethy will be found to be the most generally useful *. He states, that in the cases of Tic Douloureux that have fallen under his observation, the digestive organs have been greatly disordered, and that he has cured patients of the former by correcting the latter. * Vid. Abernethy on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases.