Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-03-23

commissions and complete loss OF consciousness,
The attack usually begins with cry The pa
tient falls insensible the face becomes pale the
head is drawn backward or sidewise, the mouth
frothS; the teeth are ground together, the tongue
is often bitten. The convulsion lasts from two
to five minutes, when it gradually subsidies and
consciousness returns, the patient falls into a
deep sleep, from which he awakes with feeling
OF exhaustion and confusion of the mind. In
the second or lighter form, known epieptic
vertigo or petitmal, the person suddenly stops
then goes on as usual. In other cases there is a
sudden dizziness, partial or momentary loss Of
consciousness after a few minutes the queer
spell' passes off and the patient looks around
with establishment Between these two extremes
there are many intermediate forms. In course
Of time the mind becomes affected, the memory
fails the judgment is impaired, the wretched be-
ing becomes irritable melancholy and morose.
The worst cases terminate in insanity or idiocy.
The chief cause Of this frightful disease is an in
herited tendency to nervous disease. Headache
In the parents is the most common cause of cpl
lepsy in the offspring. The two affections are
very closely related; many medical writer's have
observed this fact. Professor Edward Liveing,
of London, says in his able work on Headaches"
81 have dwelt thus at length on the epileptic
afIinites Of headache because they are the most
important" DR.. Marshall Hall states that head
ache, epilepsy, apoplexy, paralysis and mania
form natural group of diseases which are very
intimately related.
Heddache.-Sick, Nervous or Bilious,
DisSiHess, Dizziness, Pressure, Etc.
That repeated or prolonged attacks Of these dis
| orders Of the brain predispose 1t to many forms
Of disease can be proven by quotations from a
large number Of eminent medical writers. The
poor memory, excessive irritability and nervous
ness which so frequently result from repeated
| attacks of headache, indicate in an unmistaka-
BILE manner that the nutrition of the brain,
and consequently its power OF resisting disease
| Is impaired. In almost every case of apopleXy,
paralysis, insanity, epileptic commissions, sun
stroke, Inflammation Of the brain, etc, there has
previously been much headache
DR.. Wright, In his popular treatise on Head
ache" remarks: II am convinced that 1t is I'M
wise ever to neglect headache" In his late
work on the same subject DR.. Day states that
mo parent should ever neglect headache in a
child" and Professor Wood, in his Practice and
Medicine" emphatically declares that Its indi-
cations should never be neglected"
There is marked tendency for headache-like
many other disorders-to be inherited. when
we consider" says Professor Day, 1.-THE disorders
Of the brain and nervous system, there are few
sensible parents who will not admit that head.
ache is an affection more frequently hereditary
than almost any other" Many other authori
ties could be cited to the same effect. In the
case Of one patient whom DR., Miles cured o.
long-continued headache thirteen members o.
his family were subject to it. Headache tends
to shorten life in many ways: a. By causing
more or less nervous exhaustion especially O
the nerve centerS, which in turn affect the Who'll,
body, o. by inducing other forms of diseas,
which tend to shorten life, as epilepsy, insanity
heart disease, brain disease, apoplexy, etc DR.
Miles has never known person to have brail
fever, sunstroke congestion of the brain or ape
plexy who had not been subject to headache
1t is well known to oculists that persons hav
ing weak eyes, which are always more or les
congested, are much more liable to have infam
nation of these organs than those who hav
strong ones. In like manner it can readily b
= seen that persons subject to headache are muc
more liable to disease of the brain, as it is a
easy matter for the congestion, which accom-
= panies all headaches, to be famed into inflan
7 nation,