Neuralgia and the diseases that resemble it

Neuralgia may be defined as a disease of the nervous system, manifesting itself by pains which, in the great majority of cases, are unilateral, and which appear to follow accura...

I now approach what is really the most difficult portion of my task; for, although it would be easy enough to write copiously on the treatment of neuralgia, it is extremely diff...

The pathology and the etiology of neuralgia cannot be considered apart; they must be discussed together at every step. I do not mean to say that neuralgia is singular among dise...

The secondary affections which may arise as complications of neuralgia form a deeply interesting chapter in nervous pathology, and one which has only been explored in quite rece...

I retain this phrase, not because it is an absolutely good one, but because it has become so familiar that it is difficult to dispense with it. We have taken a useful step, howe...

_Diagnosis._--This subject is much simplified and shortened, in regard to our present purpose, by the plan of the present work, which, by separately describing (in Part II.) the...

Syphilis, as has already been shown in Part I. of this work, may excite true neuralgia in subjects already predisposed to the latter. The case of Matilda W., previously given, i...

Although it is, in a general way, unadvisable to introduce abstract discussions into a treatise which should be strictly practical, it is almost impossible to avoid some few gen...

Of all the diseases which superficially resemble neuralgia, none are so likely to be confounded with it, on a cursory glance, as myalgia. More careful inquiry, however, furnishe...

A very important class of pains, which are occasionally confounded with true neuralgias, are those which occur in certain forms of chronic alcoholism. The diagnosis of their tru...

There is perhaps nothing, in the whole range of practical medicine, more difficult to seize with clear comprehension, and picture to the mind with accuracy, than the group of ps...

Considering the vast amount that has been written about this disease during the last few years, it might be thought superfluous for me to give any description of its general fea...

Colic, or painful half spasm, half paralysis of the large intestines, is the best example of a kind of spasmodic pains to which some authors accord the name of neuralgia, as it...

So firmly is the idea of an essential connection between rheumatism and neuralgia implanted in the popular mind, and, indeed, in the minds of a certain portion of the medical pr...

A final word or two must be given to the distinction between neuralgia of the head and an affection so utterly different that it is surprising that they should be so frequently...

Cerebral abscesses is, fortunately, a rare disease; but the very fact of its rarity makes the resemblance of the pain it causes to that of neuralgia the more likely to lead us i...

Pains which are connected with a chronic and more or less latent form of gout not unfrequently receive the designation "neuralgic," and are treated upon that erroneous theory of...