Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-15
ACHES OF HEAD AND HEART.
Some Suggestions as to Aching Heads
and Weak Hearts.

From the American Analyst.
There are good many kinds Of headache.
In these days the nervous headache is q very
distinct variety. 1t is generally in the front of
the head, across the forehead, over the eyes.
But it may be in other parts-at the top of the
head, at one or both sides, at the back, or III
over. 1t is painful, depressing, disabling. A
man feels at the height Of the paroxysm like Q
hunter who has galloped his legs clean of and
who could not leap three-foot ditch to save
his life. The spur is Of no use, neither is the
whip. The pain in the head is worse to bear
both whip and spur than make any kind Of eff
fort which will make the head pain worse
Physic by itself il Of no use. There is not a
single drug known to medical science which
viii OF itself at once and permanently cure q
nervous headache. On the other hand, drugs
are not always needed. A complete change Of
air and circumstances will usually take away
the pain in ten or twelve hours. Perfect rest,
OF duration proportioned to the severity and
long continuance OF the symptoms, will make
the cure permanent There are, of course,
methods Of relieving or diminishing the pain
until such time as it may be possible to obtain
the complete rest.
BUT THE REST Is THE THING
to be secured at all costs. II not, the pain goes
from bad to worse and the risk from less to
greater. The final consequence it 10 impossible
to predict except that a breakdown is sooner
or later inevitable, and the breakdown NAV be
for year or for lifetime. nervous head
ache is danger signal il ii be continuous
catastrophe is imminent. The driver must put
on his brake at ell hazards or he will prob
ably soon have a leap for his life. There are
very few sets OF circumstances in which it is q
mans duty to 90 on with his work when he In
in this condition at all risks. Even a threat
ened bankruptcy had better be risked than q
threatened life. Besides, a man who is in the
unyielding grip of permanent nervous head
ache is not really the best judge Of bis own
circumstances. He magnifes and distorts
things amazingly. He takes counsel Of
his fears and abandons his hopes and
courage altogether. Rest-we repeat-im-
mediate and sufficient rests the sovereign
remedy. A fortnight ct once may be better
than q year six weeks hence. weak heart
seems to be decidedly more practically incon-
venient than weak head. II man or
woman be little feeble about the region Of
Some post or other will be provided II the con-
duct be respectable; and lack Of brains il too
common to excite any particular attention
either in the person concerned or in those
about him. But weak heart insists upon put
ting itself in evidence at all sorts Of convenient
and inconvenient times. II its possessor finds
himself rather late for his morning train and
makes "spurt' to recover lost time the exer-
ton is usually followed by such a bad quarter
of an hour" that he resolves in future rather 10
lose dozen trains than to risk temporary
suFrocATIoN on PERMANENT sYNooPx
again. The practical evils that are associated
with feeble heart are innumerable and viii
readily suggest themselves to those who DOS
sess so unsatisfactory pumping engine. Weak
hearts are by no means so common as is often
supposed. Many o man who thinks he has got
one is merely dyspeptic; many q woman owes
her symptoms to tight lacing or insufficient
feeding. II the dyspepsia be cured or the
tight lacing be dispensed with the symptoms
Of heart weakness win disappear. Even when
the heart is genuinely weak" the weakness ID
not always due to special disease Of that organ.
It may be only part Of q general weakness Of
the whole system, which is easily durable. The
late Sir Robert Christison, one of the most
eminent Of British physicians. used to smile
ut certain persons who were always COM
planning of weak hearts. Gentlemen"
he would say 10 his students when lectur-
ing on digitalis, gentlemen, the best tonic for
q weak heart Is q good brisk walk" Not .
doubt Of it. The majority of weak dAbby
hearts are weak and fabby because every other
muscle in the body is weak and Habby, and this
general weakness and fabbiness is due to want
OF vigorous use. Exercise OF the legs and back
and arms gives additional and much-needed
exercise to the heart, and the heart grows
strong by vigorous exercise exactly a. every
other muscular organ does. Tor the heart l. .
muscle. II . man has no organic disease Of the
heart, NO enlargement and no functional dis
order, plenty Of brisk walking, with occasional
running, win soon dispel his breathiessness and
heart weakness, other things being equal The
muscular inactivity Of the modern town man h
the parent Of more III health than any ether
single cause vhatever.
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