The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-11-01
CONCERNING HEADACHES.
The Fire Alarm and Police Whistle for
the Body's Protection.


able and sensible pains that infest
humanity. This is because the
MISUNDERSTANDING its apparent
hardness-is the esofest and most
sympathetic member of the body,
and accommodating to degree.
If the liver, the malaria-infected
blood, the stomach. the ears. OF
eyes-or, in fact, any member in
the partnership of organs We call
the body-doesn't like the way it is
being treated, all it has to do is to
tell the head about it. Be it ever
80 humble the abused one commands
the head to ache. and the head
cheerfully and promptly acquiesces.
Thus, the cause of headache is the
cause of all the ills that visit tired
human flesh.
Perhaps the most common form
particularly as it aff1icts the more
susceptible sex-is nerve irritation.
Loss of sleep, spoiled skirt, a too
talkative visitor, a dull play or book,
grief or fit Of crying. corn STEP
ped on by some heavy-footed clod-
anything, in fact, that worries or
hurts the nervous system can and
does make the head ache.
The next most common cause of
headache is poisoning, arising from
the absorption into the circulation
of toxic materials generated in the
intestines. These retained products
of putrefactive fermentation are
among the most dangerous poisons
known to man-being twin brothers
to the deadly curare. with which the
Orinoco Indians tip their murderous
arrows. If isolated, and injected
directly into the blood. these putre-
factive alkaloids they are call
ed,-would kill like cobra venom.
Fortunately, in passing into the
blood by absorption, their virulence'
is partly neutralized and overcome.
But they are still poisonous enough
in all conscience.
Hence, the relief of constipation,
and q mild course of cathartics are
perhaps the most useful and indis-
pensable of all headache cures.
Another condition of self-poison-
ing develops from loading the sys-
tenn with fatigue poisons-toxic ma
terial which accumulates in the blood
faster than the oxygen of the red
cells can burn it up. This causes
the shoppers and shop-girls head
ache, aud that dull throb resulting
from muscle tire. The head is i'm
peratiyely demanding rest-rest and
quiet.
The "stuffy room" and sermon"
headaches are fatigue poison pains
turned t'other end to. In these
conditions We not only are not get
ting sufficient oxygen to overcome
the poisons we ourselves are con-
stantly generating, but we are
breathing in. in the form Of carbon
dioxide, poisons emanating from
several hundred other humans.
Good. old-fashioned biliousness is
a fine adequate cause for headache
headache actually mulish in its OBJ
stinacy. A judicious amount of
starvation, together with a copious
flushing of the system with lemon
water, or some mild alkaline liver
stimulan.. usually works wonders for
these.
Over-eating is a sore provoker of
cranial pains. The toxic material
generated by fermentation of too
much food, or too much of the
wrong kind of food. circulating
through the delicate nerve fibres of
the face and head, manifest itself as
pain. This is the variety of head
ache that most frequently Furnishes
high livers and low thinkers.
Eye.strain is probably the next
most frequet cause of head pains. 1t
is really surprising how strongly the
eyes object to such trifes as being
exposed to the glare of sand, sea. or
bright light, or to too long-continued
focusing on Pickering moving pic
ture screen. or to being forced to
read, work, or embroider, hours on
end.
One would think that these mus
cles would have. by a process of
evolutionary development, become
accustomed to all such manifold
abuses by this time. But emphati-
cally such is not the case. And so.
every once in a while competent
oculists instantly and permanently
relieve some bad case of headache,
perhaps of years standing. by cor
recting the imbalance of the ocular
muscles either by operation. or by
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