1671 FEHR, Johannes Michael (1610 – 1688); SCHMIDT, Elias
Naturae genius, medicorum Celsus, Jason Argonautarum, Bauschius occubuit.
First authentic case of trigeminal neuralgia. It concerned J. L. Bausch, who died from the condition in 1665. The account is to be found in the unpaged part of the volume, starting at sig. d 3 and occupying the two fo…
GMN 4512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8900
1776 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
Of a painful affection of the face.
Original description of facial neuralgia. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 5, 100-06.
GMN 4516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/363
1781 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780); ELLIOT, John (1747 – 1787)
A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works of John Fothergill. With an account of his life; and occasional notes, by John Elliot.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13800
1787 PUJOL, Alexis (1739 – 1804)
Essai sur la maladie de la face, nommée le tic douloureux; avec quelques réflexions sur la raptus caninus de Caelius Aurelianus.
The first monograph exclusively on trigeminal neuralgia, which Pujol called “tic douloureux”, or painful tic, as it had originally been designated by Caelius Aurelianus. Pujol provided a valuable description of the sy…
GMN 14359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16689
1858 CARNOCHAN, John Murray (1817 – 1887)
Exsection of the trunk of the second branch of the fifth pair of nerves, beyond the ganglion of Meckel, for severe neuralgia of the face; with three cases.
First excision of the superior maxillary nerve for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5612
1871 –1872 PANCOAST, Joseph (1805 – 1882)
New operation for the relief of persistent facial neuralgia.
Pancoast devised the operative procedure of sectioning the second and third branches of the fifth pair of nerves as they emerge from the base of the brain. Reported by F. Woodbury.
GMN 4855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5618
1884 MEARS, James Ewing (1838 – 1919)
Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.
Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5626
1890 ROSE, William (1847 – 1910)
Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.
Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.
GMN 4863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5657
1891 HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857 – 1916); ET AL
Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).
Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.
GMN 4865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5667
1892 HARTLEY, Frank (1856 – 1913)
Intracranial neurectomy of the second and third divisions of the fifth nerve.
Hartley originated the operation of intracranial neurectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5705
1892 KRAUSE, Fedor (1856 – 1937)
Resection des Trigeminus innerhalb der Schädelhöhle.
Hartley–Krause operation for relief of trigeminal neuralgia (see also No. 4870).
GMN 4871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5710
1900 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.
GMN 4875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5722
1901 SPILLER, William Gibson (1863 – 1940); FRAZIER, Charles Harrison (1870 – 1936)
The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.
Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.
GMN 4876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5732
1903 ABADIE, Joseph Louis Irenée Jean (1873 – 1934)
Névralgie faciale; présentation de malade.
Alcohol injection of the Gasserian ganglion for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. See also pp. 91-96 of the same volume. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 4877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5736
1911 TROTTER, Wilfred Batten Lewis (1872 – 1939)
On certain clinically obscure malignant tumours of the naso-pharyngeal wall.
“Trotter’s syndrome”; deafness, palatal paralysis, and facial neuralgia, usually due to a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
GMN 3319.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4542
1918 PEET, Max Minor (1885 – 1949)
Tic douloureux and its treatment, with a review of the cases operated upon at the University Hospital in 1917.
Trigeminal nerve resection with conservation of the motor root, for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5848
1925 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.
Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.
GMN 4896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5904
1932 BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936); DUEL, Arthur Baldwin (1870 – 1936)
The operative treatment of facial palsy by the introduction of nerve grafts into the Fallopian canal and by other intratemporal methods.
A classic paper which includes some history of the surgical treatment of facial palsy.
GMN 4899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5927
1959 STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966); RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
GMN 14358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16688
