A Treatise on Neuralgia Author:Richard Rowland 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: Exciting Causes. -- It is a most important consideration in the study of Neuralgic affections, to examine into the nature of the Exciting Causes: these are s... more »o numerous, and so various, that a single glance will be sufficient to shew the fallacy of those theories, which trace all cases to one common origin, an error, however, into which some able practitioners have fallen. Exposure to wet and cold, particularly to a stream of cold air, is a frequent cause of Neuralgia; thus it is often occasioned by sitting at an open window or door, by insufficiency of clothing in inclement seasons,« less