Originale
The first clear description of TN that was not confused with another disease entity was made in 1688 by Drs. Johannes Michael Fehr and Elias Schmidt, secretaries of the Imperial Leopoldian Academy of Natural Sciences. In their eulogy of Johannes Laurentius Bausch, they vividly described the painful symptoms that had plagued the distinguished founder of their Academy for the 4 years prior to his death. Bausch was said to have experienced a sharp, shooting pain in his right maxilla that came on suddenly like a bolt of lightening, varying in intensity, leaving him unable to speak or eat solid food. In the fall of 1665, the pain disappeared, only to return early that same winter. The pain that Bausch subsequently experienced was so intense that it forced him to remain bedridden. He eventually died of malnutrition because his dietary intake was limited by the excruciating pain.