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 the minute blood-vessels of the brain. It should never, however, be given in very large quantities, since when thus administered it causes depression of the nervous centres, besides exercising the most prejudicial effects upon the digestive and assimilative systems. ]\IcLane Hamilton has found that the inhalation of nitrous oxide is of great benefit in ana3mic headache. The ordinary apparatus used by dentists was employed in administering the gas. The importance of maintaining a horizontal position, especially during the early stages of the affection, can hardly be overestimated; and the benefits thence to be derived may be greatly enhanced by elevating the lower extremities by means of cushions, or preferably by raising the foot of the bed or lounge by means of blocks placed beneath the feet. After all has been said, however, with regard to re- medies, it must be admitted that the ultimate reliance of the physician consists in enhancing the powers of the apparatus of digestion and absorption. Cod-liver oil, rare beef-steaks and mutton-chops should occupy a prominent place in the dietary; while milk and eggs may be given ad libitum, where the digestive powers are not seriously impaired. As a matter of course, if the anaemia be due to the presence of some obviously morbid element, the latter should be gotten rid of as soon as possible. If the di- gestive apparatus is iiiipaired it should be put in good condition as soon as possible; if there is hemorrhage from the uterus or any other portion of the body it should be arrested, and in short from whatever source the debilitating influences emanate, they should be neutralized or removed as expeditiously as circum- stances will admit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21047509_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
