We find, as a rule, that severe headaches and neuralgias are but the forerunners of more serious conditions, and are therefore deserving of special attention.
The great majority of headaches and neuralgias are due to the presence of poisons in the blood.
We have taken a useful step, however, in separating the true neuralgias from the somewhat indefinite group of diseases to which this title has been given.
Another circumstance is common to all neuralgias of superficial nerves; and, as a large majority of all neuralgias are superficial in situation, this is, for practical purposes, a general characteristic of the disease.
Speaking generally of atropine, it must undoubtedly be counted far inferior to morphia as a speedy and reliable reliever of neuralgic pain, but for all pelvic neuralgias it appears to me on the whole to surpass morphia.
This is very interesting, as placing angina in the same category with the severe and intractable forms of facial and other neuralgias which are so highly characteristic of the period of bodily degeneration.
Pure neuralgias of the larynx, like those of the pharynx, are more common in women, and especially in weakly hysterical women, than in men.
Although I have thought fit here to give an outline of angina pectoris as a connected whole, I shall have occasion to recur to the subject again under the heads of Pathology and Treatment of Neuralgias in General.
Although the neuralgias of the degenerative period are thus fatally progressive, on the whole, there are some curious occasional anomalies.
The tendency of cervico-occipital neuralgias is to spread toward the lower portions of the face, as observed by Valleix; in this case they become, sometimes, undistinguishable from neuralgias of the third division of the trigeminus.
The final characteristic common to all neuralgias is that fatigue, and every other depressing influence, directly predispose to an attack, and aggravate it when already existing.
I have used it with advantage in ulcers, neuralgias and tetanus.
Equally well has it served me in very severe cases of neuralgia of stomach and bowels, while for the past few years it has done faithful work in ovarian and uterine neuralgias following or preceding difficult menstruation.
In severest cases of neuralgias of the head and face it would do its work quick and well.
I have found it excellent in the treatment of neuralgiasand for rheumatism.
Emphysematous affections are aggravated; diseases of the heart are unfavorably influenced; chronic nervous affections are made worse, and, in particular, neuralgias are aggravated.
When the neuralgias are excessively violent, opium may be again administered, preferably by enema, and in combination with bromide of potassium or chloral hydrate.
The neuralgias and subjective sufferings are greatly mitigated or cease altogether.
Next in succession come feelings of malaise, hot and cold flushes, and those neuralgias which precede and attend malarial paroxysms.
On the other hand, neuralgias and disturbances of sensation are not common sequelæ of typhoid fever.
The neuralgias and other temporary dysaesthesias which constitute a considerable category in the symptoms of gouty persons are doubtless due to transient central and peripheral lesions.
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