A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1867.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    size; she has attempted to sew, em can move the arm with considerable facility. | August 26th, 1829. I called upon ahi patient to- stay to make inquiry respecting these complaints. She has not had any return of the affection of the breast, but er feels a weakness and numbness in the right arm. : A few weeks ago, when at a distance from home, I was consulted by a lady respecting a painful affection of the left breast, which was enlarged and indurated in one part towards the axilla; the tumour appeared to have been produced by a simple enlargement of the glandular structure; the whole surface of the breast was painful on pressure, and she suffered from frequent pains dart- ing from the neck over the breast and shoulder. The tumour had continued obstinate, notwithstanding the frequent use of leeches and iodine. On examining the spine, the lower cervical vertebre were found to be tender. I advised the occasional application of a blister to this part, but have not since heard from the surgeon who attended her. | These cases render it highly pkdtatity that the affec- tion usually known as the “irritable breast,” is a neu- ralgic affection of the part, dependant upon a morbid state of the lower cervical portion of the spinal marrow. The description given by Sir Astley Cooper* of the irritable state of the breast, exactly coincides with the phenomena attendant upon these neuralgic. affections. +. Thtustra@ons of Diseases of the Breast, by Sir Astley Cooper, p. 76. - eae ee Rey Cte SMEs Peta