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HEADACHE.
persons by eating shell fish, herrings, crab soup, or drink-
ing malt liquor, or white wine, and it is frequently the
result of taking balsam copaibse. Some persons have so
peculiar an idiosyncracy of constitution, that extreme
cold or heat, or any of the causes mentioned, will pro-
duce the disease readily.
Treament.- The disease is evidently inflammatory,
and requires your treatment to consist in gentle ape-
rients, low diet, warm baths, &c. I generally move the
bowels with a half grain of podophyllin, and two to
four grains of the compound powder of rhubarb, as
heretofore advised. In severe cases, some advise the
use of the lancet. Dr. Beach says, if you will bathe
the parts well with good spirits, and a little gum cam-
phor or celandine, (tetterwort,) and drink saffron tea,
you will soon cure the disease.
It sometimes assumes a chronic form, which is very
obstinate. In this case you must resort to antiphlogistic
means, and in regard to local applications, you will find
the chlorides, prussic acid or nitric acid best to alleviate
the itching.
CONVULSIVE DISEASES,
CEPHALALGIA.
Cephalalgia embraces every variety of headache, and
there is such a diversity of character in regard to it,
and it is so exceedingly common, that it entitles it to
peculiar consideration. I shall endeavour to point out
the peculiarities in regard to primary, symptomatic,
and idiopathic headache, without attempting explan a405
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/405/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.