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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    One word with regard to croton oil, the use of which I have so repeatedly recommended. I look upon it as something more than the most valuable purgative we can employ in painful nervous affections: it exerts a powerful, nay almost specific, influence over the majority of cases, and frequently effects a cure without the aid of other remedial measures.^ Its powerful agency was discovered by Sir Charles Bell, in a violent case of Tic Douloureux which occurred at the Middlesex Hospital, and was detailed by him in the Medical Gazette, about seven years ago. Since that time, I have employed it largely, and can bear testimony to the justness of the eulogium bestowed upon it. At a future period, I hope to be enabled to ' It is, of course, of great importance that the genuine expressed oil of the seeds of croton tiglium be used; as a violently cathartic, acrimonious substance is manufactured and frequently sold for croton oil, procured from the seeds of jatropha curcas, Ac. I deem it, therefore, of consequence to the public, and an act of justice to an individual with whom I am personally unacquainted, to state ray conviction that the medicine prepared by Mr. Arthur Short, of Moorfields, is perfectly genuine: I have employed it in many coses, and with the most satisfactory results. 7