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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![HYPER^MIC OR CONGESTIVE HEADACHE. Sym]itoinatology.—In this form of head-pain the subject complains of a severe tensive pain, and at the same time experiences a sensation of fuUness, as though the cranium were too small for its contents. As a rule the painful sensations are not circumscribed in character, but are distributed throughout the entire extent of the cranium. The pain is constant, and is augmented by assuming the recumbent posture; conse- quently sleep is more or less profoundly affected. All forms of mental or physical exertion are followed by exacerbations of pain accompanied by more or less vertigo. The subject is extremely irritable and aroused to inordinate passion by the most trivial circumstances; he is pessimistic, depressed and lachrymose, and in- clined to find fault with all about him. Sensory dis- turbances are also more or less common, and may con- sist in functional exaltation or depi-ession. Sometimes the action of the heart is inordinately in- creased in strength and considerably accelerated, so that the patient complains of throbbing in the tem- poral and carotid arteries, w^hich in some cases is so violent as to be easily discovered with the naked eye. There is also a well-marked increase in temperature, particularly above the vertex, and the face is suffused to such a degree as to present a livid, coppery appear- ance. Causation.—The immediate cause of the above group of symptoms is an increase in the arterial blood-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21047509_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
