Clinical notes of cases of neuralgia in connection with troubles of the accommodation of the eye / by Geo. T. Stevens.

  • Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical notes of cases of neuralgia in connection with troubles of the accommodation of the eye / by Geo. T. Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mrs. C. E. A. visited me in company with her sou Ned, who had poor sight and pain after reading, and who had hypermetropia. In course of conversation with the mother I learned the following particulars respecting herself. Since childhood she had been a victim of neuralgia. In early school-days she had often been forced to leave school and seek her bed on account of severe attacks, and the neuralgic habit had continued with her up to this time. Attacks, of late, had been most frequently brought on by fatigue or exhaustion from active mental or physical exertion. They had usually commenced with a feeling of great depression and weariness, to which succeeded intense pain, often located at the lower point of the right shoulder-blade, but of late more frequently over the left eye. The pain, sometimes accompanied by nausea, had in these attacks been of great intensity, and had in almost every instance forced her to keep her room and her bed for three or four days together, during which time the admission of light or noise to the apartment was a source of torture. The paroxysms had occurred about once a month, though not at stated intervals. Mrs. A. is a lady of much more than ordinary men- tal and physical activity. Her son Ned, as before stated, is hypermetropic, and she has another son, eighteen years of age, who is subject to sick headaches. Her mother and her grandmother suffered greatly from nervous troubles.