Neuralgia and the diseases that resemble itAnstie, Francis Edmund
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Neuralgia and the diseases that resemble it
Anstie, Francis Edmund
Neuralgia
VI. Severe neurotic angina pectoris; in a gentleman, aged fifty.
Almost every one of the graver neuroses among patient's near
relations.
VII. Migraine and cervico-occipital neuralgia; in a young lady, aged
twenty-five. Immediate causes, brain-work, and influence of
cold weather. Father and brother both epileptic; father's
family much affected with neurotic diseases.
VIII. Sciatica; highly-nervous temperament. Father died insane from
drink; and probably other members of the family also nearly or
quite insane.
IX. Auriculo-temporal neuralgia; in a married lady, aged
twenty-eight. Father's family markedly phthisical and neuralgic.
X. Intercostal neuralgia; in a girl (phthisical), aged twenty-four.
Mother and two uncles phthisical; maternal grandfather epileptic
and a drinker.
XI. Facial neuralgia (third branch trigeminal); in a gentleman, aged
fifty-four, a great whiskey-drinker. Drinking hereditary for
three generations; father died insane; grandfather epileptic;
sister phthisical; two brothers very "eccentric."
XII. Migraine, severe; in a lady, aged thirty-three. Grief was the
immediate cause. Mother hemiplegic at forty-second year; first
cousin insane; two aunts (maternal) epileptic.
XIII. Extremely severe sciatica and cervico-brachial neuralgia of the
left side, with singular inflammatory consequences; in a lady,
aged fifty-two. A family history remarkably free from neurotic
diseases and from phthisis. The neuralgia was probably caused
partly by excessive ptyalism, partly by over brain-work.
XIV. Migraine; in a young lady, aged sixteen; very profuse
menstruation, which had lasted for two years. Family history
very free both from phthisis and neuroses.
XV. Frontal and nasal neuralgia; in a man. Repeated attacks of
localized facial erysipelas; drinking-habits for some years;
fatal acute insanity in middle age. Father insane, committed
suicide; mother subject of violent epileptiform tic.
XVI. Angina pectoris (neurotic); spasmodic asthma, twenty years;
facial neuralgia and erysipelas; in a gentleman, aged fifty.
Family medical history scanty and imperfect; but, as far as it
goes, entirely without evidence of either phthisis or neuroses.
XVII. Neuralgia of testis, immediately caused by local irritation.
Father died of phthisis; paternal uncle epileptic and insane.
XVIII. Ovarian neuralgia; in a girl, aged twenty-six, liable to
occasional migraine. Mother has suffered sciatica; brother
died of phthisis.
XIX. Gastralgia; in a man, aged twenty-seven; highly intellectual and
nervous. Family history very free from neuroses; but some
evidence of phthisis, in two previous generations, on mother's
side.
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