Lectures on epilepsy, pain, paralysis, and certain other disorders of the nervous system : delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in London / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

  • Radcliffe, Charles Bland, 1822-1889.
Date:
1864
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    LECTURE VIII. Pain. —Pathology of jmin. —Neuralgic pain may be associated with a deeply depressed condition of the circulation—neuralgic pain antagonised rather than favoured by an over-active condition of the circulation—pain the result of tenderness, and not jiain of a neuralgic character, associated with a state of active congestion or inflammation. Condition of respiration during pain does not shed any very certain light upon the pathology of pain. Neuralgic pain antagonised rather than favoured by inflammatory excite- ment of the nervous system—pain the result of tenderness, not pain of a neuralgic character, associated with inflammatory excite- ment of the nervous system—neuralgic pain associated witli a state of irritation in the nervous system, not with a state of inflamma- tion—inflammation in the nervous system a consequence, not a cause, of the state of which neuralgic pain is the sign. Neuralgic pain, like convidsion, tremor, and spasm, to be regarded as a sign of defective vital power in general, and defective nerve power in particular—this view of the jiathology of pain in perfect accor- dance with the view of sensation proi)ounded in these lectures, and these two views reciprocally interpret and corroborate each other. Tlierapeutics of pain.—Remarks confined to pain of a neuralgic character—avoidance of damp an d cold of great imijortance— diet not to contain too much lean meat and too little fatty and oily matter —sugar in excess may be harmful—properly regidated use of alco- hohc drinks an essential part of the preventive and curative plans of treatment—coffee, chocolate, or cocoa to be preferred as a common beverage to tea—habitual use of purgatives and aperients pernicious—cod liver oil a very suitable tonic—phosphorus some- times indicated—electricity in certain forms likely to be very useful—counter-ii-ritauts of much use—sedatives in sedative doses not required. Paralysis in certain aspects.—Certain questions relating to pathology.—The fact that paralysis is accompanied by morbid muscular contraction, as twitchings, cramps, convulsions, and so on, no certain proof that the paralysing lesion is of a con-