Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 557 ] REMARKS O N That Complaint commonly known under the Name of the SICK HEAD-ACH. Read, December 14, 1778*. HERE is a difeafe, which, though it occurs very frequently, has not yet obtained a place in the fyftematic catalogues. It is commonly to be met with in pradlice, and is defcribed by thofe who are affedled with it, and who are not few in number, under the compound title of a fick head-ach. Under this title they, at leall, defcribe their feelings, and, on a little in- quiry, one finds that they are affedled by both ficknefs and head-ach.—This is not the complaint of any particular age, or fex, or conftitution, or feafon—. it is incident to all. The fedentary, inadtive, relaxed, and incautious re- fpedling diet, are the moll expofed to it; and they are, fometimes, not much lefs fufferers by the means frequently made ufe of to remove it, than by the difeafe itfelf. To colledl into a fhort compafs all the fymptoms which accompany this difeafe, would be difficult, and not fo very interelling; to defcribe fo many, as to make the complaint eafily to be diftinguifhed in the firft place, and in what manner it may be treated with fuccefs, will be of more importance. Thofe who are affedled with the fick head-ach, moll commonly defcribe it in this manner;—that they awake early in the morning with a head-ach, which feldom affedls the whole head, but one particular part of it, moll commonly the forehead, over one frequently, fometimes above both eyes. • Medical Obfervations and Inquiries, vol, vi. p. 103, Sometimes](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21517460_0723.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
