Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Fig. 4. Fig. 5. ^ # TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA. 733 water-cure, as well as the change of air, change of habits and sur-roundings, ^nd freedom from work or home care, are of great benefitto many patients. And if this can be combined with foreign travel bysending patients to some health resort abroad, much relief will beobtained. The dry climate of the Nile, the rarefied air of the Enga-dine, or high Swiss valleys, or Colorado, are very beneficial. The treatment of herpes zoster consists in making applications ofzinc ointment in the e
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Fig. 4. Fig. 5. ^ # TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA. 733 water-cure, as well as the change of air, change of habits and sur-roundings, ^nd freedom from work or home care, are of great benefitto many patients. And if this can be combined with foreign travel bysending patients to some health resort abroad, much relief will beobtained. The dry climate of the Nile, the rarefied air of the Enga-dine, or high Swiss valleys, or Colorado, are very beneficial. The treatment of herpes zoster consists in making applications ofzinc ointment in the early stage and protecting the surface by linenbandages. Collodion may be applied in the later stage when there isno longer any liquid secretion in the vesicles. If the vesicles fill withpus they should be punctured and washed with a solution of corrosivesublimate 1 to 5,000. The palliative treatment of neuralgia will be considered in discussingthe special forms of the disease. SPECIAL FORMS OF NEURALGIA. Trigeminal Neuralgia. — Neuralgia of the fifth nerve. Tic
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