Cases of neuralgia spasmodica, commonly termed tic douloureux, successfully treated.

  • Hutchinson, Benjamin.
Date:
1822
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    113 CASE XXVII. Dr. Yeats, of Queen Street, Mayfair, has most obligingly communicated to me the following history of the case of his lady. 17, Queen Street, Mayfair, April 14. 1822. Dear Sir, I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 10th instant, requesting some information respecting the case of Mrs. Y., who has been a very severe suf- ferer from the neuralgia spasmodica of the sciatic and tibial nerves of the right thigh and leg. I regret that I cannot at present send you a minute detail of the history of the case, as the disease has not yet terminated, but undoubtedly a most powerful and salutary impression has been made upon it by the subcarbonas ferri, which the perusal of your valuable pam- phlet suggested to me. The patient in