The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-10
RFaEnIEs F0R HEADACHE.


The following recipes and suggestions
for the treatment Of different forms OF
headache are collected, says the Boston
Journal Of Chemistry, from variety of
trustworthy sources:
Two grains citrate of caffeine, il cap
sule. taken every half hour, is q very ef-
fectuaI remedy in nervous and sick head
ache. One or two doses are often sufli-
cient to give common relief, The only
objection TO its use is sleeplessness, which
sometimes results if it IS taken in the
evening. 1t is preferable to guarana,
as being hardly ever rejected by the
stomach
The following, according to W. W.
CARPENTER. is very effectual in most forms
of headache Muriate of ammonia,
draChmS acetate of mOrphla, l grain
citrate Of caffeine, 30 grains ; aromatic
spirits of ammonia, l drachm elixir of
gur7na. ounces rOse-waCer. 4 ounces.
Mix. Dessert-spoOnful every ten or
twelve minutes.
InnervOus headache, DR.. W. y. Ham
mOnd states the value Of various drugs
as follows: Oxide of zinc is of great
value. Ordinary dose, , grains three
I times day, after meals maximum
grains. 1t is best to give in form Of pills.
Nux vOmica is preferable to strychnia.
/ The dose is ! grain, after meals. If the
patient be cholortic, it is well to com
/ bine a grain of reduced iron and a half
grain of sulphate of quinine.
Bismuth, in the form of subcarbonate,
will often take the place of zinc. Dose,
two grains, after each meal. Bismuth
/ probably aids digestion more than any
mineral tonic, and is of use when there
/ is gastric disturbance.
I The lrOuniIpS are Spryippo lIa yybp1,
+ the nervous system has been irritated:
/ when it is exhausted they do harm.
/ Phosphorus is very useful in most
/ forms of nervous headache. The best
results are obtained from dilute pEos-
/ phOric acid, in doses Of 30 drops, largely
diluted three times a day, after eating,
/ or phosphide of zinc, one-tenth grain, in
/ pill. three times day.
/ Arsenic, as a nerve tonic, stand next
( in value TO zinc. Dose, 5drOps OF FOw-
ler's solution three times a day.
/ Galvanism is sometimes valuable, but
. by no means a specific. The constant
clUrcal should always be used, being
/ careful to avoid too great intensity, less
/ amaurOsis be produced.
/ Br. y. Lauder Brunton, editor Of the
7 London Practitioner, says The admin
istratiOn of q brisk purgatiye, or small
, dose of EPSON salts three times day, IS
( a most elfectual remedy for frontal head
. ache when associated with constipation;
I but if the bowels be regular, the morbid
! processes on which it depends seem to
/ be checked, and the headache removed
/ even more effectually by nitrO-muTiatic
acid, diluted 10 drops in wine-glass of
of water. before meals. If the head
ache be Immediately above the eyebrows
/ the acid IS best but If it be 4 little
. higher up, just where the hair begins the
soda appears TO be the most effectual.
. At the same time that the headache is
/ rem owed the feeling of slecplessness
and Weariuess, which frequently lead
the patients to complain that they rise
. up more tired than they lie down, gen
orally disappears.
4 writer in the London Lancet ra-
marks: At the Middlesex Hospital fe-
male patients VINO have suffered many
years from sick headache. evidently of
a hereditary character, have been great
ly benefited, if not curel, by the admin
IstTatIOu OF ten miulm doses OtttiHctuTe
of Indian hemp, three times daily, be-
tween the attacks. This is well worthy
of trial in those cases of everything,
. ueveU-dyinE- maTtyTdOm-lika Suffering.
In headache due to determination OF
blood to the head, and in a fever, the
4 following simple treatmen, is 10 be com
HeuuGu: Tut ldidi VI OF salt INTO
quart Of water, add an ounce Of spirits
of harjshoru and halt an ounce Of SPIRITS
Of camphUr Cork the bottle tightly
( to prevent the escape Of the spirit. Soak
q piece OF soft cloth with the mixture
and apply it to the head wet the rag
fresh as soon as It gets heated.
Soaking ,he feet in warm water. in
! which a spoonful Of mustard has been
stirred, is also beneficial IN drawing the
blood from he head.
4 Two spOOHsful Of powdered charcoal
we'll stirred in half glass OF water and
drank at once, is a valuable remedy liz
sick headache from sour stomach, flatu-
leuce, etc.
Tiucture Of nuX vomica is recommend
ded by Ringer as possessed of real cura-
tive powers when given i'm drop doses.
repeated every FIVE or ten minutes for
. eight o. ten doses, and then continued
1t longer intervals, for sick headache.
accompanied with acute gastric catarrh,
whether due to error in diet, .constipa-
tion or no apparent cause.