Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry into the treatment of tic douloureux' by W R [William Robert] Whatton

Description

Whatton writes on 'neuralgia facialis' [trigeminal neuralgia], providing an overview of existing research into the condition and its symptoms and presenting several case studies on its treatment. He suggests that the condition generally affects those of a 'nervous temperament, who possess an unusual degree of irritability'.

Subject: Medicine / Neurology

Received 19 December 1833 [sic]. Read 31 January 1833. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An experimental inquiry into the treatment of tic douloureux'.

Reference number

AP/17/14

Earliest possible date

December 1832

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

20 pages

Format

Manuscript