| RefNo | AP/17/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry into the treatment of tic douloureux' by W R [William Robert] Whatton |
| Date | December 1832 |
| Description | Whatton writes on 'neuralgia facialis' [trigeminal neuralgia], providing an overview of existing research into the condition and its symptoms and presenting several case studies on its treatment. He suggests that the condition generally affects those of a 'nervous temperament, who possess an unusual degree of irritability'.
Subject: Medicine / Neurology
Received 19 December 1833 [sic]. Read 31 January 1833. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An experimental inquiry into the treatment of tic douloureux'. |
| Extent | 20p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0092 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2544 | Whatton; William Robert (1790 - 1835) | 1790 - 1835 |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |