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:
1829
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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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    stances the tenderness is so great that even slight pres- sure can scarcely be borne, and will often cause pain to strike from the spine to the seat of spasm or neuralgia. This affection of the spinal marrow occasionally exists throughout its whole extent; more frequently, however, it is confined to some particular portion, and occasion- ally is seated in different and remote portions at the same time ; the particular symptoms, and the tender- ness on pressure indicating the affected part. The symptoms, of course, vary considerably, accord- mg to the particular part of the spme which is affected, and bear reference to the distribution of the different spinal nerves. When the upper cervical portion of the spinal mar- row is diseased, we frequently find neuralgic affections of the scalp ; the pain strikes in various directions over the posterior and lateral parts of the head; sometimes the twigs in the neighbourhood of the ear, sometimes those which ascend over the occiput to the superior part of the scalp, are more particularly the seat of the complaint ; the nervous twigs distributed to the integuments of the neck, are occasionally affected, the pain darting across the neck to the edge of the lower jaw, and sometimes encroaching a little upon the face.* These neuralgic diseases frequently assume an intermittent form, the paroxysms generally occurring in the evening. A stiff neck, or impaired action of the muscles moving the head, frequently attend the affection of the upper cer- * Vertigo frequently attends this neuralgia of the scalp, and it is some- times accompanied with tinnitus aurium, These symptoms, however, are, I think, more properly attributable to a concomitant affection of the neigh- bouring nerves of the sympathetic system. Violent throbbing of the temples, and increased heat of the scalp, often attend the paroxysm.