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tive organs, but it was thought advisable to put her under a course 
of medicine for a few days, similar to that made use of in the last 
case ; and the Veratria ointment, of the same strength, was ordered 
to be rubbed on in the usual manner when the next paroxysm 
occurred. This was accordingly done ; and after the friction had 
been continued for a quarter of an hour, the pain ceased entirely, 
and never came on afterwards in the shape of a regular attack. 
During five weeks from this date, the disease appeared occasion- 
ally in the form of slight twinges of pain in the part previously 
affected, but these were at once removed by rubbing on a little of 
the ointment, and at length completely disappeared. 
CASE IV. 
A apy, about thirty-five years of age, has suffered most severely 
and almost without intermission for the last eighteen months, from 
tic-douloureux in the cheek and side of the forehead. She has, 
during ali that time, been put under the effects of nearly every 
variety of medical treatment that could be suggested, without pro- 
ducing any effect whatever upon the disease ; and the only remedy 
which has in any degree alleviated her sufferings is galvanism, but 
this also has failed in producing any permanent benefit. 
This patient appeared to enjoy very good health: so that, with- 
out any other treatment being put in practice, it was determined 
upon at once to try the effects of the Veratria ointment. She was 
therefore ordered to rub over the affected part in the usual manner 
an ointment made with twenty grains of Veratria to an ounce of 
Jard, which she accordingly did, and in ten minutes from the com- 
mencement of the friction, every vestige of the pain had disappeared, 
and it has never since returned. 
CASE V. 
A Lavy, twenty-five years of age, has been for the last seven years 
affected with severe tic-douloureux, confined to one point, exactly 
in the situation of the supra orbitary foramen of the right side. 
The paroxysms have varied in duration, from sixteen hours to two 
days ; and intervals, extending from ten days to three weeks, but 
never longer, have intervened between the attacks of pain, and 
these, when short, have generally been followed by a recurrence of 
the symptoms in two or three days. 
In this, as in the preceding cases, almost every means of cure 
appeared to have been already had recourse to, but, as usual, with- 
out procuring any permanent alleviation of the sufferings of the 
patient, except that small doses of acetate of morphia administered 
during the paroxysm, sometimes caused an immediate cessation ; 
but it was attended with this inconvenience, that if it did not pro- 
