On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt.

Date:
1844
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the indiscriminate application of them, which in many cases, I am persuaded, has tended to increase the disease from which the tic douloureux has arisen, and to render it more obstinate and incurable. Such I apprehend to have been the result of administering large doses of carbonate of iron, quinine, bark, arsenic, and the more powerful sedatives.—All valuable remedies, when judiciously administered, but equally baneful when given with- out judgment or discrimination. Having practised for many years in the south of Devon, the climate of which is proverbial for being warm, humid, and relaxing, and peculiarly calculated to produce the kind of habit most favorable for the development of those nervous diseases, which depend on weakness and relaxation, I had frequent opportunities of seeing and studying those diseases.