A probationary surgical essay on neuralgia, commonly known by the name of tic douloureux : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by John Caird. October 1811.

  • Caird, John, -1861.
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1811
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Credit: A probationary surgical essay on neuralgia, commonly known by the name of tic douloureux : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by John Caird. October 1811. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESSAY ON NEURALGIA. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. Of the many diseases to which the human body is liable, few, I believe, are more dis¬ tressing than that which I have chosen for the subject of this Essa}^ It is one of those painful affections, which, while it tortures and afflicts the miserable sufferer, perplexes and troubles the physician; who, after a fruit¬ less but persevering trial of every medicine that his skill can supply, or his imagination suggest, is obliged to consign the unfortunate patient to the care of the surgeon. A