On nervous or sick-headache : its varieties and treatment : two lectures delivered at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge / by P.W. Latham.

  • Peter Wallwork Latham
Date:
1873
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    gradually diminishes, and that most invalids end by being disgusted with it, because the attacks of headache although less painful generally become longer and more inconvenient. The vjirious prepara- tions of Paullinia are the same as those of Monesia and Rhatany, and are given in the same manner and in the same quantities.”^ Trousseau’s opinion therefore of guarana as a remedy in this disorder is not a very high one, and some English observers have even asserted that it is perfectly useless. You must bear in mind however that there are, as I have stated, different forms of sick-headache, and therefore it would be too much to expect that any particular remedy should have the same effect in all cases. The sick-headaches which guarana seems to relieve are those in which distinct premonitory symptoms usher in the attack, and particularly those preceded by disturbance of vision. In such cases 15 grains of guarana given as soon as the headache begins, and if necessary re- peated in half-an-hour, an hour, or an hour and-a- half, will often cut short the paroxysms. Such was the effect in the following case. M. M., set. 18, admitted as an out-patient Sept. 4, 1872; states that she has had headache at intervals ^ Trousseau et Pidoux, Traiti de Th4rapeutique et de Matiere Medicale. Paris, 1868, tome I., pp. 163—5.
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