A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1867.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    years. It is generally attended with much constitu- tional disturbance. ‘There is headache, with great heat in the external surface of the head, severe throbbing of the temples, and pain in the nape of the neck. The temper is capricious, and the spirits very variable; and at the catamenial periods, the depression in many cases is excessive. ‘The tongue, after some time, is furred, and at the back part greatly tuberculated. The stomach suffers under the various forms of dyspepsia, gastro- dynia, flatulence, pyrosis, &c.; the bowels are in many Instances much distended, and there is continual clangor intestinorum. Palpitation of the heart, more or less, is present, and often dyspnoea attends. The most common disturbance, however, is in the uterine function, and I have scarcely seen an instance in which this has not occurred. Most commonly there is me- norrhagia; in some few cases the catamenia are di- minished, or they are completely suppressed. But whether they are increased or diminished, leucorrhea almost invariably attends, and is generally more or less profuse, in proportion to the duration of the general disorder. When the catamenia are profuse, they are usually, in the earlier part of the period, dark-coloured and grumous, and are accompanied with severe pain. The urine for the most part deposits a light-coloured sediment, and varies much in quantity, being occasion- ally very copious and limpid. ‘The bowels are consti- pated, and yet no great relief is obtained by purging.” Other circumstances attending these affections are also noticed, as “pain onthe side in the course of the descending colon;” “difficulty of breathing, which is sometimes so great as to induce great fear of organic mischief having taken place in the lungs, especially :