The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-06-19

cruel foes entrance. And the converse
is likewise true. If you, then, suffer from
tic-douloureux, see, first and foremost,
that it does not rise from carries of the
teeth. Only dentist can find this out
for you, for a tooth may be sound enough
to appearance, and yet decayed within.
Often the removal of one or two teeth
will effect in an hour the complete cure
of case that has been going on for
months.
The treatment for neuralgia may be
| fitly divided into the topical, or that
which gives relief at once, without refer
ence to premature cure, and the consti-
tutional, or that which tends to remove
The cause and prevent any recurrence.
| shall mention the former of these first.
Probably that which gives the greatest
relief is the subcutaneous injection of
morphia; but as this tiny but comfort
ing operation can only be performed by
some one with skill, pass it by, and
tell you of the great good that may be
done by twice day smearing the track
of the nerve with the aconitine ointment
only, remember, it must not be applied
TO an abraded surface. When it can be
borne, alternate douches of hot and cold
water sometimes give relief, and rubbing
or shampooing the parts for some
length oftime may result in good.
But if the pain is at its worst, and i'm
mediate relief is needed, the inhalation
of or smelling ut vial of chloroform
will act like II charm. Take first n
little good Scotch whisky, with from
twenty to forty drops of the spirit of
ether in it; then have, not one sniff, but
two or three good shifts, ut the vial of
chloroform. 1t will not make you in
sensible, but it will scare away the
pain. | often do good by administering
one large dose of quinine; l am rather
chary of advising you, however, to try
it, because ten or fifteen grains of this
Invaluable medicine may work injury
if either head or heart is easily affected.
People often complain of what they
call rheumatism in the jaw, where
probably the whole of the teeth in one
side, not one more than another, are
affected. Now the drug called sal am
moniac Chloride of ammonium) is
almost specific for this kind of face
ache. The dose is half q drachm three or
four times Il day; but if it doesn't do
good after the fourth or fifth dose it may
be stopped. 1t is well worth trial, and
is safe.
Neuralgia and rheumatism are at
times mysteriously allied, and, did space
permit, | could tell you of some very
strange cures effected by the use of the
dumb bells-first, think, recommended
by DR.. Arnott. When the pain comes
on, the patient has recourse to these; and
whether it is the indomitable power of
will OF the effect on the circulation |
know not-all know is, it often scares
the tic away, and that is something.
Nothing probably gives more certain
relief in cases of sciatica than small
blister, not bigger than a penny-piece,
just over the spot where the nerve seems
to come out. e., where the pain be-
gins-and afterward busting not more
than half grain ofmorphia on the raw
surface. And now for constitutional REM
edies. | will not allow any patient of
mine to cuddle and fondle himself and
his neuralgia over the fire or in bed one
hour longer than is necessary. The
mind has wonderful effect on nervous
ailments, and by letting it dwell on them
you assuredly increase them; besides,
the body is under par, exercise is needed,
and pure air and many things besides;
and therefore prescribe activity, to be-
gin with, not senseless walk-taking, but
healthy exercise with purpose.
Medicine must not be neglected; but
assure you, unless you not only take
plenty of exercise, regulate your diet, and
in some way alter for the better your
usual mode of life, it will just be us well,
if not better, to pour the medicine down
plain way ofputting it, but it is very true,
notwithstanding. Now think, in most
cases, an occasional mild purgative will
be good, for tonics should never be taken
unless the bowels are regular: and as the
liver is Just little to blame. a claret-
glassful of fFriedricshall water may be
taken twice week with benefit. Your
tonic--unless there be great fullness of
blood-had better be an iron one, COM
bined with quinine, which any chemist
will compound you. Tell him you want
the tincture of iron and a little dilute
hydrochloric acid in quinine mixture.
Probably he will say the citrate of iron
and quinine is better Git is more easily
compounded). and then it will be for
you to consider whether you will be
advised by him or by your family doe
tor" Here is beautiful wee mixture
which you can compound for yourself
and the dose of which is teaspoonful
F in IL little water three times day; take
two ounces of tincture of quinine, hall
an ounce of tincture of ginger, and the
same quantity ssof pure glycerine, and
mix. The following is n capital tonic
to be taken after an attack of neuralgia
and continued some weeks: liquor arsen,
icalis hydrochlorici, 100 drops; quinine
. 30 grains; elixir of vitriol, 2 drachms
. ginger syrup, 3 ounces; mix. An(
, the dose is II teaspoonful after every
meal in little water. When mentions
. ing sal ammoniac / ought to have sale
, than in those cases where good is done
, and they are very many-whenever thu
pain is gone you should reduce the dos,
, to ten or fifteen grains thrice a day for /;
+ week. In some cases of sciatica, where
! the subject is Il gouty or rheumatic one
good is done by a course of iodide of po
), tassium in combination with tonics.
AS for food, the more nourishing it i
the better-good meat, plenty of egg
: and milk, ETC., and perhaps Il littl
q brandy and Apollinaris water.
I Give UP tea and coffee for time, an,
;. use cocoa; the less oily kind is the best
a My advice for the prevention of the re
! turn of neuralgia may be summed up in
= few substantives-air exercise, regular
d, ity, temperance, tonics, cocoa and cod
liver oil.-Harper'S Bazar.