The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-03

smoking unless they can connne themselves
TO a single after-dinner cigar or pipe. Much
smoking affects the mucous membranes
of the nose, causing them to degenerate
and thereby, indirectly. cause headaches.
Whoever is liable to headaches should keep
out of -smoking-rooms and refuse to sit
with friends and others smoking one cigar
after another. As to cigarettes. they should
avoid them like the plague.
Excess of mental work causes headache
sooner or later IN a larger or lesser degree,
according to disposition and pedisposition.
I have had megrim patents who could
engage in certain work, copying or read
ing. for instance. without the least discom-
fort. but suffered terribly as soon as they
undertook to deal in original i~deas-that IS.
to think hard. l advise every sufferer from
headache who can do SO to stop mental
work the moment he feels tired. Look up
what 1 have said of tiredness. 1t will be
also advisable for him to work with inter-
walls. If he must work eight hours q day
let the work be spread over a period OF
twelve to fourteen hours.
Even a constitutionally nervous person
can perform lots of work without hurting
his or her health. If the work be only prop
erly divided up. Never force yourself to
continue at a task. the burden of which
threatens your well-being. II disposed to
headaches. you will certainly suffer from
them on account of overwork. while the
work performed will be deficient at the
same time.
%ChfIdren's Headaches.
OF course. employees cannot always follow
the above advice, and mOre's the pity that
children can't. owing to the examining sys-
TEN in vogue in most schools nowadays.
The educational tyrant is responsible for
a great deal Of chronic and periodical head
aches. and l tell him he is mistaken, or
lies. when he says that most of the chill
dren that are backward in learning fall be-
hind because they do not give proper at
tention to the task before them. 1t isn't
true. The majority of children are over
worked in school. yet exhibit a degree OF
endurance that is as pitiable as 1t is aston
ishing. How many poor boys burn the
midnight oil studying impossible problems
impossible to them-either from a sense
of duty or because of misguided ambition.
The number of girls mentally ruined by the
excess of superfluous Knowledge demanded
at the examination is legion in every large
city. And the headaches these boys and
girls suffer with If their school tyrants
would only experience themselves they
might become a little more lenient.
A domineerinS spirit. ambition. rage. loss
of money. cares-all these cause headaches.
Passionate people. more than anybody else.
should learn to understand that It's seldom
worth while to get mad with anybody or
anything. and that to get mad means to
suffer. bodily and mentally.
Nervous people are inclined to be hasty
In everything they do. They work with
fever heat and for that reason acquire a
headache while the work itself probably
wouldn't have hurt them at all.
and Headaches.
Climate has a great deal to do with head
aches. There are places where persons in
clined to the disease suffer more acuteIy
and persistently than when residing in most
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ferers by sending them to the Engadin
Mountains Switzerland.
why the Engadin Mountains should stop
meSrlm don't know. but even a short res
idence in that territory benefits patients
very considerably and a few months stav
relieves them of the pains for the rest OF
the year. As a general rule, headache suf-
1erers may be advised to try a residence
situated considerable higher than thai to
Whlch they are accustomed. Those living
IN the valley should take a house ON the
mn, while hill jewellers build their bungalo,y
OF the mountain top. Always higher-that
Is the rule But there are exceptions of
course In a few cases coming under my
observation, l noticed that mountain air
rather increased than decreased attacks Of
megrim. Many seashore jewellers get -d NJ
their headaches by going to the mountains.
ahu some mountalneefs experience great
peneht from a s%ojourn by the sea. hut.
as a general rule. sea air has small hpns-
nciai lnnuence on headaches, though 1 have
heard OF persons permanently cured of
headaches by a succession CT ocean Jour
neys. however. by inquiring into all the
lacts' l ascertained that these persons wee
not subject to sea sickness. a MALAY that
generally attacks headache sufferers, cius-
ing great additional misery.
OFTEN a mere change of residence is bcue-
ncial. Several Of my Leipzig patients who
TOOK up their residence in other cities
wrote me afterwards that they got rid of
their headaches. and a Berlin colleague re-
ports similar experiences with mis- clients.
But don't rely on the change Of TIE
climate alone. Persons who 80 10 a health
resort necessarily change their mode OF
LIVING while there. The rules. company and
freedom from work induce them TO s2erG
most OF their time in the open. ou5. ec:ng
home. they usually return to the habits |
that brought on the disease. Spending all