The Brooklyn Medical Journal. Vol. II. No. 2. Aug., 1888

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PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF KINGS.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE :
JOSEPH H. RAYMOND, M. D.,
ALEX. HUTCHINS, M. D.,
GLENTWORTH R. BUTLER, M. D.,
JOSEPH H. HUNT, M. D.,
FRED. D. BAILEY, M. D.
BY WM. M. THALLON, M.D.
Read before the Brooklyn Dental Society, May 28, 1888.
Mr. President and Gentlemen:—Some months ago, when sitting in the operating-chair of your Chairman of the Committee on Subjects, he asked me if I would not read a paper before the Brooklyn Dental Society. In the helpless condition in which I then was, with literally a gag in my mouth, robbing me of the prerogative of free speech, and under the shadow of a formidable mallet, I somewhat timorously signified an assent. Under those circumstances I know of few men who would have had the moral and physical courage to have resisted such an appeal. When in the course of his further practices, he asked me what my subject would be, I promptly replied by mentioning the thing then most vivid in my mind: Facial Neuralgia.