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If blisters seem to be called for, aqua ammonia and oil of turpen- 

 tine may be added to the essential oils, or muriatic acid may be 

 applied with a glass rod in points along the line of nerve. A 

 laxative of Epsom or Glauber salts will often prove of great value 

 at the outset and may be followed by diuretic doses of potassium 

 iodide, potassium nitrate or acetate, and in rheumatic cases 

 sodium salicylate. In these last forms, as also in gout, the car- 

 bonates and acetates of the alkalies, colchicum, and salicylates are 

 especially to be persisted with. In these, too, rubefacients and 

 blisters are often of essential value and may be repeated again 

 and again. 



Faradism is of little account during the active stage of neuritis 

 excepting as a test of the progress and extent of the degeneration, 

 but when inflammation has subsided nothing contributes more to 

 the restoration of the tone and healthy nutrition of both nerve 

 and muscle. The current is to be sent along the line of the pare- 

 tic nerve and muscles for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and not 

 less than once a day. 



NEURAIvGIA. 



Intermittent or remittent pains, in line of nerve without inflammation, or 

 other structural lesion. Diagnosis: lameness, stiffness of particular mus- 

 cles having a common nerve. Unnatiiral position habitual. Pain of inflam- 

 mation and of neuralgia. No functional change. Rheumati.sm. Tumors. 

 Causes : lead, rheumatism, gout, auto-poisons, cold, anaemia, reflex. Facial 

 neuralgia, occipito-cervical, dorso-intercostal, lumbo-abdominal, sciatic. 

 Treatment: elimination, of lead, etc.; intestinal antiseptics, tonics, hot 

 water, anodynes, arsenic. 



This is characterized by pain paroxysmal, intermittent or re- 

 mittent situated in the course of given nerves. It must be a pure 

 neurosis and unaccompanied by any specific structural lesion like 

 inflammation, degeneration, atrophy, hypertrophy, tumor or the 

 like. It is therefore manifested subjectively and cannot be easily 

 identified in the lower animals. Nevertheless, Eafosse, Zundel, 

 Genee, and others have recorded cases, their conclusion being de- 

 duced from symptoms which were held to indicate nervous suffer- 



