#The Tibial (internal popliteal) nerve# is rarely injured.
#The Cranial nerves# are considered with affections of the head and neck
(Vol. II.).
NEURALGIA
The term neuralgia is applied clinically to any pain which follows the
course of a nerve, and is not referable to any discoverable cause. It
should not be applied to pain which results from pressure on a nerve by
a tumour, a mass of callus, an aneurysm, or by any similar gross lesion.
We shall only consider here those forms of neuralgia which are amenable
to surgical treatment.
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