Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-08
Headaches Are Our Friends.

only the red flags hung out as a sign
'hat some organ is functionins alb
normally. They are not diseases, bu:
always symptoms. A headache has
virtue, because it leads you to search
out the cauSative factor. II is not an
enemy, but our friend"
ms and other interesting and CON-
iortng comment on that universally
mated and feared human ailmen,
known as the headache is provided in
recent article by DR.. A. W. Herr
Cleveland in The Western Medical
/ Times.
Dr. Herr takes the position that the
majority of headaches are of that class
Which have their genesis in wrong liv-
ing and wrong habits; so that in the
great preponderance off instances a
mere correction of the irregularity will
/ relieve the headache.
/ Considerable can be learned rs TO
/ the source OF the troublc oy its relative
location in the heal" he W.T. les.
T wv hiaJol'lN OF people
are aware that an ache in the foreheai
/ Is usually due to disorder of the
stomach or bowels, but if situated TO
one side in the region of the temple.
ana coming on more or less periodical
Iy 1t indicates some error of refractio,
which can be corrected by the wearing
OF proper lens.
Now, not all are headaches. They
are Just as likely as not to be found
elsewhere. For instance, the ache
about the size of dollar on the vertex
of the head does not indicate any disor
der OF the brain. Or as in the case of
a sick headache, the head is not the
organ which is sick but the stomach
instead. The ache of the stomach is
ln'the head In other words, it is not
a headache at all 1t is stomach
ache in the head. The pain is reflect
ed from the stomach along the track of
the pneumogastric nerve in the head.
ms can be easily remedied in the case
of migraine, or sick headache. BY the
administering of a lavage of the
stomach A washing out of the retain
ed and fermenting food masses will
relieve irritation of the stomach nerves
and IN a few minutes the headache
will disappear.
"Cephalalgias or headaches NAV
roughly be classified into external and
internal. The seat of the external NAV
be in the muScularis of the Uranium or
IN the periosteum or in the nerves
themselves, due to irritation of the
branches of the fifth cranial nerve. The
internal forms are also divisible into
three classifcations. First, the con-
gestive, where there is a pain of the
whole head from forehead to occiput.
Second, organic. Third, dyspeptic. in
which is included sick headache, or
migraine.
Dividing headache as to causes we
would say:
1.-The haemic causes, such as
anaema, congestion and blood dys-
crasias, as govt, rheumatism, diabetes
and fevers.
THE toxic causes, as lead, alcohol or
tobacco.
Nervous states, as epilepsy,
neurasthenia and hysteria.
"Rehex causes, as ocular, dyspeptic
or sexual.
"Organc causes, as meningitis.
$50 far as location in the head is
concerned, headaches are divided into
frontal, occipital, parietal, temporal,
vertical and diffuse.
The pain of the headache is:
"Pulsating and throbbng, as in mi
graine.
"Dull, heavy and splitting, as in the
toxic or dyspeptic.
squeezing and pressing, as in in
neurotic. r.iYi[E'g
"Hot, burning and sore, as in the
rheumatic and anaemic.
SHARP and boring, as in hysteria
and epilepsy, so says Dana.
The first aid TO the headache in
valid is to remove the cause. But very
often the cause lies little closer than
we are willing to acknowledge. Manv
women suffer from headaches because
their husbands smoke in the house.
She breathes the poison of the smoke
when fresh, and, still worse, the dead
smoke that remains in the house night
and day, or she may have a headache,
toxic one, from the free use of coffee
and tea. Many a headache is relieved
by prohibiting the use of these bever-
ages, which are nerve stimulants due
10 the caffein and their content and IN