CHAPTER III. 



NEURALGIA OR " TIC-!)OULOUREUX " OF THE Ln 



HYPER^ESTHKSI.Y. or exulted sensibility ami irritability 

 of nerve fibre, is met with in every section and organ of 

 the body. 



The chief forms of " visceral neuralgia " wliich present 

 themselves to our notice in practice, are ( lastrodynia, 

 istralu'ia. and its various complications ; Colic and 

 ilius, more especially leadcoli* d^ia, nr neuralgia 



of the spleen ; Nephralu'ia of the kidneys; Hysteral^ia 

 of the womb ; Mash.dynia of the breast ; and the one 

 we are now more particularly interested in, vix., 11 

 tal.u'ia liver ]>ains, or neuralgia ; in tact, a form ot 

 douloureux ; " tor I see no j '.<\n^ the 



history and patlm! L0E into coiisi<lerat ion " 



why such an expression should not be ai 

 neuralgic atb'i-ti'His invad: : tin- body, in 



addition to the face; provided, of 00 form of 



m'uralu r ia be of that i I type which is cliar.i 



istic of true " tic douloureux." 



HisTvKicALLY. Severe pains of the liver were ; 

 noticed by Avicenna of I'.ockbara. A.I>. '.SD ; a 

 by Iloltink and Bartholin ; and more recently, by Gross- 

 man, Andral, and St..kes of Dublin. 



HICALLY. It has already been observed that 

 the nerves, which convey and abnormal 



tious to the liver, are derived from the systems, both of 



