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New article name ...Melville's "Tic-Dolly-Row" in "Moby Dick" is third-mate Stubbs' crude anglicization of the French name for a not-uncommon painful neurological condition: "tic douloureux" or "painful tic", an inflammatory affection of the trigeminal cranial nerve which manifests itself with attacks of severe lancinating pain in the face
== References == any good textbook on Neurology or Dorland's Medical Dictionary