Other symptoms of similar nature are herpes, increased salivation, furred tongue (on the side of the lesion), sweating of the skin, lacrimation, conjunctivitis, and keratitis.
General decline in health.
This depends, not only on the difficulty experienced in taking sufficient nourishment, but also on the moral effect produced by the more or less continuous pain. In the more severe cases emaciation is rapid.
Treatment.
1. Therapeutic remedies. The following drugs have been recommended.
Quinine, in large and increasing doses.
Arsenic, given in a similar fashion.
Gelsemium, in toxic doses, every few hours until tinglings in the fingers and nausea show that the drug has been pushed far enough (Sir Victor Horsley).
Methylene blue, in three-grain doses (Sir Watson Cheyne).
Iron, antipyrin, strychnine, cannabis indica, &c.