Nearly all these cases are curable with from one week to six weeks
treatment. Of course the treatment must be intelligently directed after
a correct diagnosis as to the cause. The cause can usually be removed.
One case to which my attention has been directed was that of a woman
about forty years of age who had very severe pains. With all the local
treatment of the eye and otherwise she got practically no results
until she had replacement of the uterus, which brought immediate
relief. Other cases have no trouble on that kind but have lesions of
the cervical region and on correction of these lesions the neuralgia
disappears. Other cases have had the nasopharynx cleaned out by the
finger operation and the stretching of the soft palate which relieved
the neuralgia immediately or in a few days. Numbers of cases have been
to medical physicians and had various eye remedies administered locally
with no permanent benefit. Of course the treatment was administered at
the wrong place.
The ramifications of the sympathetic and fifth cranial nerves are so
complex and far-reaching that we must keep in mind that one or more of
many causes for the trouble may exist and be quite remote from the seat
of the pain.