Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose.

  • Roose, Robson, 1848-1905.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ng along the Course of Neighbouring Nerves—Points Douloureux —Cutaneous Hyperaesthesia and Anaesthesia—Motor Disorder— Vaso-Motor Disturbances and Disorders of Secretion and Nutrition —Eruptions of Herpes and Erythema— Effects of Neuralgia— Diagnosis—Treatment—Discovery of Cause—Symptomatic Treat- ment—Quinine, Arsenic, Salicylate of Sodium, Iodide of Potassium —Anodynes, Morphine and Atropine—Liniments—Counter-Irrita- tion—Electricity—Various Tonic Remedies—Neurotomy and Neu- rectomy—Summary of Treatment ... ... ... 187-216 CHAPTER VIII. Various Forms of Neuralgia. I. Neuralgia of the Trigeminus—Tic Douloureux.—II. Inter- costal Neuralgia.—III. Sciatica. I. Causes of Tic Douloureux—Symptoms—Pain—Duration and Fre- quency of the Attacks—rExciting Causes—Tw^o Kinds of Pain— Motor Disorder—Spasm of the Facial Muscles-^Vaso-Motor and Trophic Disturbances—Neuro-Paralytic Ophthalmia—Disorder of General Health—Neuralgia of the Supra-Orbital Branch—Neuralgia of the Supra- and Inframaxillary Divisions—Two Stages often observed in Facial Neuralgia—Diagnosis—Treatment—Causal and Constitutional—Electricity—Anodynes, Morphine, Gelsemium— Specific Remedies, Quinine, Arsenic, Iron, Ammonium Chloride— Liniments—Counter Irritation—Neurotomy—Neurectomy—Nerve- Stretching. II. Intercostal Neuralgia, Causes and Symptoms—Points Douloureux— Complications and Course—Diagnosis—Irritable Breast or Masto- dynia—Symptoms and Differential Diagnosis—Treatment of Inter- costal Neuralgia and of Mastodynia. III. Sciatica, its Frequency and Causes—Symptoms, their Nature and Variety—Points Douloureux—State of the Muscles—Vaso-Motor and Trophic Symptoms—Sugar sometimes found in the Urine— Electrical Conditions of the Affected Parts—Course and Duration of Sciatica — Diagnosis — Prognosis — Treatment — Question as to Causation—Rheumatism—Iodide of Potassium—Blisters—Hypo- dermic Injections of Morphine and Atropine—Electricity—Flying