Osteopathy Complete . air. 312 OSTEOPATHY COMPLETE. Diseases of the Nervous System. NEURALGIA. (Pain in the course of a nerve.) SYMPTOMS. Burmng or ishooting pain in the course of the affectednerve; parts may be anesthetic, but usually there is hyperes-thesia of the skin. Prolonged neuralgia may produce dis-turbance of nutrition. Neuralgia may be due to constitutional causes, suchas gout or rheumatism; or some form of toxemia, as malaria;or condition of the blood, as anemia, TREATMENT. * Neuralgia of any part should be treated in a similarmanner to Acute Articular Rheumatism (page 289) of that
Osteopathy Complete . air. 312 OSTEOPATHY COMPLETE. Diseases of the Nervous System. NEURALGIA. (Pain in the course of a nerve.) SYMPTOMS. Burmng or ishooting pain in the course of the affectednerve; parts may be anesthetic, but usually there is hyperes-thesia of the skin. Prolonged neuralgia may produce dis-turbance of nutrition. Neuralgia may be due to constitutional causes, suchas gout or rheumatism; or some form of toxemia, as malaria;or condition of the blood, as anemia, TREATMENT. * Neuralgia of any part should be treated in a similarmanner to Acute Articular Rheumatism (page 289) of thatpart. If in the face, thorough manipulation of the face andneck should be given; if in a limb, thoroiugh manipulation,extension, and flexion of that part should be applied. It is often advisable in neuralgia to give a thoroughGeneral Treatment (page W(\). This disease is sometimes cured in one or two treat-ments, in other instances baffling the skill of the mostexperienced operator. Treatment should be given each Cut 33.—Headache. DISEASES OF THE NERTOVS SYSTEM. 315 TIC-DOULOTJRETJX. (A form of neuralgia involving the trigeminus nerve, and causing muscular twitching of the face.) TREATMENT. 1. Place the hand under the chin, the other under theoccipital, and give thorough extension of the neck. 2. Manipulate all muscles of the neck very thoroughly,working as far as possible with the fingers under the infe-rior maxillary. 3. Place the finger-tips over the Gasserian ganglion(cut 49), and vibrate (pages 36 and 67) one minute. Treatment will occupy about ten minutes, and should begiven every day, HEADACHE. (Pain in the head.) SYMPTOMS AND CAUSES. Gastric or dyspeptic headaches are often occipital, some-times frontal, and if accompanied by constipation, are dif-fuse and frontal. Uterine and ovarian headaches are occipi-tal and vertical. Nervous headaches are seated on the top ofthe head. If pulsating and throbbing, indicates vaso-motor dis-turbances; squeezing and pressing, n
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