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...doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...
Various medications have been used for relief of tic, such as alcohol injections, salicylates, trichlorethylene. Latest proposed treatment is Vitamin B 1 (TIME, May 8). But all these treatments are palliative, none gives permanent relief. Surgical cutting of nerves in the face was tried as early as 1748. Since then the surgical technique has been refined to include cutting of nerve roots and ganglions in the brain...
...exquisitely painful as the prolonged probing of a dentist's drill on a bare nerve is Tic Douloureux, or facial neuralgia, a disease which attacks the nerve tract of cheeks, mouth and tongue. Neuralgia spasms seldom last longer than two minutes, often twist a patient's face into a hideous grimace of agony. Usually persons over 40 years old are victims of the disease, and at first attacks may occur no more than twice a year. Later they return several times a day with increasing severity until sufferers long for death as the only relief from their pain...
...neural gia sufferers. The scientists knew that vitamin B 1 (anti-beriberi), which is found in yeast and fresh red meats, prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months of treatment 42 out of 52 patients became practically "symptom free," required no further injections...
...post-season shimmies attacked the Winthrop and Kirkland grid teams a few days early this year when the Puritans and Deacons set a new all-time record of twelve fumbles in a playoff for the House title yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field which ended in a O-O tic. Although both outfits still remain deadlocked for the championship, each having won five, lost one, and tied two, Kirkland was awarded the right of meeting the Yale champions on the basis of first downs scored. The Deacons counted six to Winthrop's four, although outgained 118 yards...