Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1919-02-21
THE PREVENTION
OF HEADACHES
Mr.. Duke says ~ Headache l. Ma.
turc's Warning That There l.
Something the Matter With You

BY J. W. Duke. State Health Com
missionerl
One of the most common OF minor
ills to which humanity Is heir is
the headache. Many men and WON
en- have suffered temporary agony
from this cause, many cures have
been advertised. yet little has been
accomplished from 4 practical view
point in preventing headaches. This
Is not SO much the fault OF medical
science, as due to the fact that by
far too many sufferers from head.
aches try remedies which cannot be
expected to accomplish the desired
results.
In almost every cause the head
ache IL Natures warning, the init
mation the something" is wrong. II
might be supposed that the most
natural thing would be to find out
what is the trouble and remove tn"
cause. Perhaps a comparatively few
/ persons do this natural and logical
thing; but too many do the adver-
tised thing. they begin to dose them
selves with headache powders which
OF course. are always warranted to
cure" And thus it happens that
thousands are swallowing drugs gen
orally derived from coal tara per-
nicious and dangerous business from
beginning to end.
! 1t has been said that headache
Is Il symptom OF something else. In
the first place there are the eyes,
about which this curious thing H.
true, that II Is more often the sligh.
defects in them than the more mark
ed disorders which give rise to head
aches. 1t might be supposed that
ones eyes ought to be very far wrong
before they would precipitate trou
BILE; yet it is true that a very slight
deviation from the normal will cause
almost constant and in some cases
disabling headaches. Instead of
feeling such a headache exclusively
in the eyeballs or forehead. as might
be supposed. 1t is most felt in the
back OF the head. Not infrequently
a child is considered dull and back
ward in school when the trouble is
due not to any defect of the brain
f; but to lack OF concentration cause
by eye strain headache. The absurd
ity of trying to cure such condition
! by headache remedies" is apparent
( yet it is no more absurd than to try
! ~ Sui' othCi tohuitioHS lfSDDllSlDtt
for the headache The important
thing Is to remember that the head
ache is invariably symptom OF
| something else. Correct this CON
dition and the headache will cease
TO appear.
COrrrct Posture
! The Importance of correct pos
turn in preventing many ills and de-
! tormittes to which the body Is sus-
cep,ible has been appreciated more
| than ever In the past few years. The
harmful results of incorrect posture
are more apparent In the growing
period that boys and girls should be
taught the Importance OF avoiding
incorrect attitude. whether at work
or play, since they later result in
i'll health and in some cases even in
deformity. The principal cause for
these conditions is the tendency of
the young of both sexes to assume
Slourhing attitudes. The harm which
this will later do is not realized.
The growing body will accommo-
date itself To slowly progressing
deiormity, but il will be weaker than
.hc body which has not been So him
dered in it, proper growth. l..ga-
ments which are the natural stay and
support OF the various Organs are
strained or forced TO do their work
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