Cases of tic doloureux successfully treated / By Benj. Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Benjamin.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Cases of tic doloureux successfully treated / By Benj. Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    second branch of the fifth pair of nerves, the superior maxillary nerve. Remedies usually resorted to on these occasions had been judiciously, but unsuc¬ cessfully, administered. The benefit result¬ ing from the use of the carbonate of iron will be fully demonstrated by the complete cure of this case. “ Aldercar Park, July 20. 1814. “ Sir, “ Permit me to offer you my acknow¬ ledgments for your kind enquiries after my health : in reply to which I have the satisfaction to acquaint you, that I am almost entirely free from the dreadful dis¬ order in my face, which for many years embittered my life. I was when first at¬ tacked by it in my twenty-seventh year, and for the next twenty years and upwards, had very little respite from its tortures. Moved by what you heard and witnessed of