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Cases of Neuralgia and of Other Diseases of the Nervous System
Cases of Neuralgia and of Other Diseases of the Nervous System Author:John Chapman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and often still more emphatic epithets are employed by patients to express the pleasure which the use of the cold induces. I have not, as a rule, recorded their ... more »expressions on this point, but in a few of the reports given hereafter they will be found mentioned. For instance, in Case 10 the patient found no discomfort from the use of the ice, but, on the contrary, she found the ice pleasant. In Case 29 the patient said,—" The ice is beautiful: I don't think I shall ever be able to do without it—it is so comforting." Having suffered a long time from want of sleep, in consequence of pain, she pronounced, as she thought, the highest euloginm on the Spinal Ice-bag when she said,—" The ice makes me long to go to sleep in the daytime, but my business prevents me." In Case 40 the patient experienced distinct relief while the ice was being applied, and found it " very agreeable." In Case 56 the patient said the ice was " rather pleasant than otherwise." In Case 65 the patient said,—" The ice was very comfortable—quite refreshing : " and again she said,—" The relief I felt from the ice I can't describe," In Case 76 the patient spoke repeatedly of the pleasantness of the ice, and having also long suffered from sleepless nights, she too was delighted with what she suspected to be its sleep-inducing charm. She said,—" I can sleep at any time in the daytime now : I fancy the ice draws you to sleep ; I don't know whether it is fancy." In Case 80 the patient said,— " I find the ice very agreeable : I look for it, and would like to have it on longer each time." And again she said,—" I go to sleep with the ice on : it's astonishing how pleasant it is." In Case 83 the patient found the ice " very comfortable." In Case 95 the patient was much surprised to find that it was so agreeable. Having passed ...« less