On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders : a contribution to the pathology of nerve-storms / by Edward Liveing.

  • Liveing, Edward, 1823-1919.
Date:
1873
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Credit: On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders : a contribution to the pathology of nerve-storms / by Edward Liveing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Interval. Duration of Attudcs. Affection ofSicM. Affection of Touch and General Sensihility. Affection of Speech. Emotional i Intellectaa Disorder nd I 1 Vertigo. I£eadache. Nausea and Terminatioji of Metamorphosis. Effects ofEemedies. Slemorunda. At first 2 to 3 months; then weekly. Obscuration (central ?) before both eyes. Numbness of hands; bilateral. Bilateral. None. Gradual. ioubtful if warded off by aperients. ^0 benefit from re- cumbency or medi- cine at the time. 2 months. Begins at tari- ends at night. Reckless indif- ference. Condition of sea-sickness. Bilateral. Nausea and vomiting. Termination in sleep at night. 2 to 6 weeks. 2 to 3 days. Transient loss of sight. Both eyes. Numbness ot hands, arms, sides. Bilateral. Aphasia. Giddy. Frontal. Bilateral. Merged into epilepsy. 1 month. All day. Film' before the eyes. Numbness of leg, hand, arm, and face; unilateral, right side. Impaired arti- cidation. Confusion of Umlateral (0 All day. None. Numbness and tingling in hand and arm, right side, which be- comes so useless as to drop things. Stupor; aln: ost None. Unilateral. Eight brow. Nausea and vomiting. Gradual. Believed by vomitinj; also by ammonium chloride. At first 2 months; later, 10 to 14 hours. Unilateral. Eight. ! Vomiting only in severer seizures. Gradual. No relief from vomit- ing. Attacks commence with gastralgia. '5 to 6 hours. Intolerance of light, noise, &o. Depression ill humour fore. and be- Bilateral. None. In sleep at night, j No benefit. Premonitory chills and shivering. At first, dis- tant; then 1 month; then 2 weeks; then 1 week. 12 hours. Bilateral. Vomiting. Always by vomit- ing. Vicarious asthma. By vomiting. Temporary feebleness after attacks. Unilateral. Alter- nate sides. Vomiting. Always by vomit- By vomiting. Feeble digestion. | 1 month; after- wards 1 week. Unilateral. Alter- nate sides. Perspirations on right 1 side of body only. ] Irregularly peri- Several hours. Drowsiness proaching coma. ap- Bilateral. Vomiting Wa- tery bile. By vomiting and heavy sleep. Vicarious colic or gastralgia. Attacks of drowsiness and sickness without head- ache after 30. Eelief from vomiting. Attacks absent when perspiration free in summer.. Tingling in fin- gers, arm, side of neck; left side. Unilateral. Temple and eye of left side. Vomiting bilious watery fluid. On first occasion some attendant spasm of muscles of neck; and after-numbness of side two days. 2 mouths. 7 to 8 hours. Obscuration, more or less to one side of visual field. Numbness and tingling of ex- tremities and tongue; one or other side. Aphasia; diffi- culty in arti- culation. Bilateral. Frontal. ing. Sometimes by vomiting; other- wise gradual. Relief from change o locality. 1 month. 2i hours. Intolerance of light, &e. Inability to speali. Unilateral. Alter- nate aides. Recumbency and Copious diuresis aud salivation occasional iuoideuts of seizures.