On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux, sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt.

  • Hunt, Henry, -1877.
Date:
1844
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of tic douloureux, sciatica, and other neuralgic disorders / by Henry Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about the region of the duodenum, through the chestj neck, and back part of the fauces to the cheek. The pam then began in the cheek, and continued to increase in violence for an hour; it remained at its height about half an hour, and then gradually subsided, leaving the cheek quite easy and free from pain, even on pressure. The treatment that had been adopted was four or five minims of liquor arsenicalis made into pills with black pepper and given three times a day; this pro- duced no effect. I commenced by giving an emetic, followed by purges of calomel and compound extract of colo- cynth at night, with jalap or salts and senna the following morning : this was repeated for ten days; she then recommenced taking the arsenic in doses of five minims, which were gradually increased, with ten grains of the carbonate (now bicarbonate) of potash in warm aromatic water, three times a day. A dose of blue-pill with compound extract of colocynth was also given every other night. No benefit, however, was derived until the quantity of liquor arsenicalis had been increased to ten minims, when its usual effects were felt on the stomach. The pain then subsided. I persevered in this plan for several months with occasional intervals, the quantity of arsenic being gradually diminished. Since which time, there has been no return of the tic.