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Essai sur la maladie de la face, nommée le tic douloureux; avec quelques réflexions sur la raptus caninus de Caelius Aurelianus.

Paris: Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1787.

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 symptoms that helped his contemporaries make an exact diagnosis, even though he did not offer proven treatments.  He stressed the difficulty in differentiating the facial pain of tic douloureux from toothache. He also proposed a novel pathophysiological theory of pain.

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Publication place: Paris