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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    IRRITATION OF THE GANGLIA OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE. Tue gangha of the sympathetic nerve appear subject to a state of disease similar to that which has been de- scribed in the preceding chapter, as occurring in the spinal marrow. As the disease may be confined to one part of the spinal marrow, or may exist simultaneously in different portions, or may even pervade its whole extent, so the affection of the ganglia may be confined to one of these nervous masses, may exist in several which are con- tiguous, or in ganglia remote from each other; and, as there is reason to believe, the whole chain may occa- sionally be affected. The disease of the ganglia is seldom found, except in conjunction with that of the corresponding portion of the spinal marrow, whereas the spinal marrow is often affected without the neighbouring ganglia being under the influence of disease. Thus we frequently find symptoms of disease in a portion of the spinal marrow without any evidence of its existence in the correspond- ing ganglia, frequently the symptoms of both combined,