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HEADACHE.
frequently attended with perspiration, as in common
rheumatism.
The last and most important variety is sick headcachie,
the pain seems to confine itself particularly over the
brow, and it is generally attended with great nausea
and very frequently vomiting; it is sometimes called
bilious headache, and appropriately so, from the fact
that the discharges from the stomach are most generally
very bilious. At the present day a very large majority
of medical authors attribute this disease to an affection
of the stomach, which I am very sure is just in many
cases but not necessarily so in all. (The stomach as
well as the liver are very frequently charged by medical
gentlemen, when at a loss for a correct diagnosis, with
not performing their functions properly, and this is
especially so in regard to the liver; my experience is,
that that organ, even in this climate, is as seldom affected
as almost any other.)
I have seen cases where the pain in the head was
severe and existed some time before there was the least
evidence even of nausea; in these cases I thought the
stomach affected sympathetically. "We ought not
always to infer that the stomach originally is in fault,
simply because it is disturbed as well as the head."
Persons who are predisposed to this variety of headache
I have no doubt can bring them on by overloading the
stomach. " In a great many cases the stomach is not
affected until the derangement of the head has arrived
at a certain point, but the state of the stomach will
bring it on, and so also will costiveness; it is precisely
the same with all other affections of the head and of
the alimentary canal."408
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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/m1/408/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.