Neuralgic Patients and Fatty Foods

It is a very singular circumstance, pointed out by Dr. Radcliffe, that neuralgic patients have, with rare exceptions, a dislike to fatty foods of all kinds, and systematically neglect its use. And it has several times occured to me to see patients entirely lose neuralgic pains which had troubled them for a considerable time, after the adoption of a simple alteration in their diet, by which the proportion of fatty ingredients in it was considerably increased.

~ Dr. F.E. Anstie

Francis Edmund Anstie (11 December 1833 – 12 September 1874) was an English doctor, medical author and journalist. He was the first editor of medical journal The Practitioner, established in 1868. He is notable for proposing Anstie's limit, an amount of alcohol that could be consumed daily with no ill effects. ~ Wikipedia