Tic douloureux, or, Neuralgia facialis, and other nervous affections : their seat, nature, and cause, with cases illustrating successful methods of treatment / by R.H. Allnatt.

  • Allnatt, R. H. (Richard Hopkins)
Date:
1843
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    In these cases, the pulse is generally low and weak, the tongue furred, and the bowels costive. The treatment of sympathetic headach is aided by all the means adapted to the removal of the accompanying dyspepsia; such as light diet, regular exercise in the open air, aperients, and such measures as promote the regularity of the secretions. In derangement of the biliary functions, in addition to the general treatment, it AviU be necessary to combine with the purgatives such medicines as are supposed to exert a specific action upon the liver. Local bleeding is some- times indicated, if pain increased by pressure exist in the neighbourhood of that viscus, and is associated with a strong, rapid, or oppressed piilse.