Word: neuralgia
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...patients were victims of an excruciating form of facial neuralgia known as tic douloureux, which often seems doubly painful because the victims know there is no sure relief. Drug after touted drug and a succession of surgical procedures have been tried, only to be found of limited value, or to be discarded entirely. But hope was rekindled when Columbia University's Dr. William Amols told the American Neurological Association that a new drug, carbamazepine-not yet generally available in the U.S.-has given relief to 75% of patients for as long as two years...
...basic cause of tic douloureux, or trigeminal neuralgia,* remains as little understood as the disease's power to set off stabbing, lightninglike pain, as severe as any known to man. It usually involves one side of the face, sometimes affects the forehead and eye region, but more often concentrates its attack on the cheek and jaw. In early stages, the stabs of pain last only a few seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background...
...brand new painkiller, says France's Dr. Henri Laborit, dampens the aches and pains of arthritis, burns, cancer, childbirth, neuralgia, rheumatism-just about all the ills the flesh is heir to. Such fantastic claims may sound like the spiel of a turn-of-the-century snake-oil peddler, but the medical community has learned to take Dr. Laborit at his word. When he reports on the properties of the compound which he calls Ag 246, he speaks with the authority of a researcher who has already been credited with important drug discoveries...
...School of Medicine, explained that the management of intractable pain promises to become an increasingly important part of anesthesiologists' work, as the aged population increases and, with it, the incidence of cancer. Dr. Bonica reported that he is concentrating on the relief of intractable pain from arthritis and neuralgia as well as cancer. The approach is usually by "permanently anesthetizing" nerves with injections of alcohol or phenol...
Patients suffering non-malignant but painful diseases, such as facial neuralgia, may also be relieved and enabled to continue without resort to narcotics...