American Medical Gazette and Journal of Health Volume 11, PT. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... predilection: "comme la machoire inferieure, le trou mentonnier, le voisinage de Vapophyse mast aide et la region de la joue la plus voisine de Fail. En general," he adds, le siege le plus ordinaire du mal est sur le cote du nez immediatement au-dessous de Fos dc la pommette, a Vendroit ou une branche principale du nerf maxillaire superieur sort du canal sous-orbitaire." The authors heretofore alluded to contributed, by their observations, chiefly to the symptomatology of this disease. Chaussier, guided by his anatomical knowledge, made some steps of advancement in determining the seat of Neuralgia of the Face. In bis " Table Synoptique de la Neuralgic," (Paris, an XI, ) he makes four principal divisions of Neuralgia of the Face, according as the disease seems to be concentrated upon one or other of the branches of the fifth pair of nerves, or upon the facial nerve proper, itself. Thus, he describes separately frontal neuralgia, infra-orbital neuralgia, maxillary neuralgia; and in a note he admits the existence of neuralgia of the facial nerve. The course of the tri-facial nerve, and its anastomoses, have evidently formed a basis of this classification. Since the publication of Chaussier, several dissertations and theses have appeared at different times, in which new cases are related, but without the addition of any novel information on the subject. In 1834, M. F. Bellingeri, of Turin, published a memoir upon Neuralgia of the Face; the chief features of which are his advocacy of an intermittent form of neuralgia, and the theoretical division of neuralgia into three species--the inflammatory, the irritative, and the nervous; the first species being again subdivided into the sanguine, the phlogistic, and the rheumatismal. In more recent...