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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    could befal me, were I only relieved from that dreadful malady. — You must recol¬ lect, my dear Sir, that I experienced not the slightest relief from any external ap¬ plication ; but that some medicine (I know not what) which you were so kind as to think of for me, wholly removed the com¬ plaint, which may well be styled the rheumatism of the nerves; for I am con¬ vinced that mine was nervous, and was brought on by variously agitated feelings of mind. — The pain came on in a mo¬ ment, and seemed to proceed from a small cold place, about the size of a shilling, sometimes immediately over my left eye, at others below it; sometimes at the side of my nose, at others extending over my upper lip: it would then proceed and disperse about among (to my ideas) many small nerves, I could fancy the size of a thin wire, to my gums and teeth, where the agony would cause so much inflam-