The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-15

though 10 put coffee, tea and tobacco
in the same class OF course. there are
persons to whom one is as much Of
poison as the other. but practical eX-
perience shows that coffee and tea.
used in moderation. prove a source OF
great relief 10 most headache sufferers.
This l observed in numerous cases;
however. l advise all suffering from
headache 10 stop smoking unless they
cont1ne themselves to a single after
noon cigar or pipe. Much smoking al
tects the mucous membranes OF the
nose, causing them TO degenerate. and
thereby, indirectly. causing headaches.
Whoever Is liable to headaches should
keep out Of smoking rooms and refuse
TO sit with friends and others smoking
one cigar after the other, while as to
cigarettes. they should avoid them like
the plague
Excess of mental work causes head
ache sooner or later in a larger or
lesser degree, according 10 disposition
and predisposition. l have had megrim
patients who could engage in certain
work, copying or reading. for instance,
without the least discomfort, but suf-
fered terribly as soon as they under
took to deal in original ideas, that Is,
40 think hard. ! advise every sufferer
from headache, who can do so. TO stop
mental work the moment he feels tired
look up what i have said OF tired
ness. II will also be advisable for him
to work with intervals. If he must
work eight hours a day, let the work
be spread over a period OF twelve TO
fourteen hours.
Even a constitutionally nervous per-
son can perform lots of work without
hurting his or her health, IL the work
be only properly divided up. Never
force yourself to continue task the
burden OF which threatens your well
being. II disposed to headaches. you
will certainly suffer from them on &C
count of overwork, while the work per-
formed win be deficient at the same
time.
The educational tyrant is responsible
for a great deal OF chronic and period
icai headache, and / tell him he is mis-
taken when he says that most Of the
, children that are backward in learning
fall behind because they do not give
proper attention to the task before
them. 1t isn't true. The majority OF
children are overworked in school, yet
exhibit a degree OF endurance that is
as pitiable as IL is astonishing. How
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studying impossible problems-impos-
sible TO them-either from a sense of
duty or because of misguided ambi-
ton? The number of girls mentally
ruined by the excess of sUperfuOus
| knowledge demanded at the examina-
ton for school teacher is legion in
| every large city. And the headache
these boys and girls suffer with-if
| their school tyrants would only eX-
! perience them themselves they might
| become a little more lenient
! Climate has a great deal to do with
/ headaches. There are places where
| persons inclined TO the disease suffer
more acutely and persistently than
when residing in most other places.
Again, | have cured old megrim SUI
/ ferers by sending them to the Engadin
! mountains. Switzerland. Why the En-
gadin mountains should stop megrim l
don't know, but even short residence
in that territory benefits patients very
! considerably, and a few months stay
relieves them of their pains for the
! ] est of the year AS general rule,
headache sufferers may be advised 10
( try a residence situated considerably
/ higher than that to which they are
accustomed. Those living in the valley
should take a house on the hill, while
/ hill jewellers should build their bun
galow on the mountain top. Always
higher-that is the rule.
But there are exceptions. Of course.
In a few cases coming under my OBJ
4 serVation / noticed that mountain air
increased rather than decreased
attacks of megrim. Many seashore
! dwellers get rid of their headaches by
going TO the mountains, and some
mountaineers experience great benefit
from a sojourn by the sea; but as a
general rule sea air has small bene-
fetal influence on headaches, though !
have heard of persons permanently
cured Of headaches by a succession OF
ocean journeys However, by inquir-
ing into all the facts, l ascertained
that these persons were not subject TO
sea sickness. a malady that generally
attacks headache sufferers, causing
great additional misery.
Often a mere change of residence is
beneficial. Several of my Leipzig pa
tients who took up their residence IN
other cities wrote me afterward that
they got rid of their headaches. and a
. Berlin colleague reports similar eX-
Periences with his clients.
But don't rely on the change of the
climate alone. Persons who go TO
health resort necessarily change their
mode Of living while there The rules
company and freedom from work in
duce them to spend most OF their time
in the open, but, going home, they
usually return 10 the habits that bring
on the disease-spending all their time
or nearly all their time. indoors; sleep
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smoking. drinking and eating toe
much.
Many physicians send headache suf-
ferers to health giving springs, partic-
ularly such as contain iron or act as
purgatives. Unless headache appears
in connection with the green sickness
so called. iron can have no possible
beneficial influence. Purging waters
may be of use. as already intimated
but nervous people should beware OF
them as. too irritating
Massage may give relief to headache
sufferers INDUCING much In mental
work. Where headaches are due Il
other causes the masseur is an unnec'
essary luxury. Gymnastics are TO be
advised when performed in the open
Don't waste time or money by eXer-
clsing in oHe OF those modern gymna-
Sums reeking with dust and tobacco
smoke. Likewise do not exercise while
the headache At is on.
During the hours of suffering abso'
lutte quiet is necessary. Sit quiet. il
possible lie still. Danish light, warmth
noise. smells Even our parents know
that quinine was a good thing TO us
against headache-my own experience
shows that all anti-fever remedies
have a tendency to drive away or di-
minish headache. The trouble is thu
benefit lasts only as long as the rem
edy remains in the system. Bromide
salts have no direct influence on head
ache. but are efficient TO allay the out
ward manifestations of pains. Tit
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