neuralgia to his commanding officer, and demands to be sent home. In Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, the father of the narrator has neuralgia. In the 1976 film Aces High, a British ace in the Royal Flying Corps (played by Simon Ward) feigns neuralgia to escape the terrors of aerial combat. The narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Look at the Harlequins! claims to have neuralgia of the jaw. See also Cranial nerves Nerve Neuritis Neuropathic pain Neuropathy References Further reading Shankland, Dr. Wesley E. Face the Pain - The Challenge of Facial Pain, (Omega Publishing, 2001) Dr. Shankland is a former associate editor of The Journal of Craniomandibular Practice. External links Pain Neurological disorders Symptoms and signs: Nervous system