Excerpt from Neuralgia, Its Various Forms, Pathology, and Treatment: Being the Jacksonian Prize Essay of the Royal College of Surgeons for 1850, With Some Additions The limits of a volume like the present, pre cluded any lengthened discussion of many import ant topics. Yet I believe, it ranges over a wider field than its predecessors. The section devoted to Traumatic Neuralgia is quite novel, and although but a sketch, may serve as the basis for future investigations of great interest to the surgeon. A new plan of treatment is also described - the same advocated in my pamphlet - and is intro duced simply from the fact, that I have found it highly beneficial in cases that had resisted every other system of management. Many of these are detailed, but more for the purpose of illustrating the various forms of the malady, than of advocating any special I I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.