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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    body. It is in fact an entire system characterized by peculiarities which distinguish its nerves from those which arise from the brain and medulla spinalis. It extends from the cranium to the pelvis, lying along the vertebral column; and it presents a chain of gangha connected by nervous filaments. The sympathetic nerves are symmetrical, and from their direct communications, are generally represented as taking their origin from the sixth pair or motores externi, and from the first or ophthalmic division and ^ddian branch of the fifth. Each nerve consists of three cervical, twelve dor- sal, five lumbar and fom* sacral ganglia with their cords of connexion. Three small ganglia are also situated in the cranium, namely, the lenticular in the orbit, the spheno-palatine or the ganghon of Meckel, and a small one in the branch of com- munication between the anterior cerebral arteries, denominated the naso-palatine. From the anterior border of the lenticular gan- glion filaments issue, which proceed forwards to the surface of the sclerotica, namely, the ciliary