¶ Tic douloureux, a form of facial neuralgia often rated the most painful of afflictions, has been relieved for as long as two years by a drug called stilbamidine, taken orally or by injection, reported two Maryland doctors. Previous treatments (cutting a facial nerve or deadening it with alcohol injections) left the patient with no sensation or "phantom" sensations on one side of his face.
¶ For unusually nervous wives, Chicago's Dr. Walter C. Alvarez offered a prescription: "Learn to live a day at a time, forgetting old unhappinesses and not worrying about the morrow. Go to bed at 9...
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