A treatise on headache and neuralgia : including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep / by J. Leonard Corning ; with an appendix Eye strain: a cause of headache, by David Webster.
- James Leonard Corning
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on headache and neuralgia : including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep / by J. Leonard Corning ; with an appendix Eye strain: a cause of headache, by David Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![of syncope. I first called attention to this symptom some time ago, and I have since had occasion to verify the assertions then made over and over again. The surface thermometer when properly applied over the vertex shows a considerable diminution in temperature as compared with the rest of the body. Again, persistent drooping of the eyelids is an almost constant symptom in this form of headache, and one of considerable diagnostic value, from the fact that the phenomenon may be produced experimentally by the appropriate application of compression to the caro- tids, as I have frequently demonstrated.' Treatment.—The temporary relief of this form of headache is a matter of no great difficulty, especially if the cerebral anaemia is due rather to vaso motor than to general causes. The inhalation of a few drops of the nitrate of amy] is often followed by immediate relief, but the latter is usually of only temporary duration, uuless special means be adopted to perpetuate the good effects of the remedy. This object may be accomplished in a variety of ways: the inhalations of the nitrate may be repeated several times a day; the patient may be placed upon a sofa or bed, the foot of which is elevated by means of blocks of wood; alcohol may be given in frequent doses; the salts of iron and quinine may be adminis- tered, or opium may be given in small doses, a mode of treatment which has yielded good results in the hands of various practitioners in certain cases. Of all the remedies above enumerated pre-eminent importance must be assigned to alcohol; when taken in moderate quantities it increases the energy of the heart's action and at the same time causes dilatation ' Brain Rest, by J. Leonard Corning, G. P. Putnam's Sons. Also the various papers and articles alluded to in this work.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21047509_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
