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cellent. ‘Ginger is highly beneficial, in this and all other disorders — 
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ion or crudities in the 
- stomach, from which ‘arises an acid gas, affecting the nerves. It 
often proceeds also from costiveness and indigestion ; strong hiquors, 
spasms, and deficiency of heat inthe skull. "There is likewise a most 
fixed, constant and almost intolerable head-ach, which ocea# 
at debility both of body and mind, prevents sleep, destroys 
tite, causes a swimming dimness of sight, a noise in the ears, 
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convulsions, epileptic fits, and sometimes vomiting, costiveness, and 
coldness of the extremities, &c. 
é head-ach is also a common symptom in hysterfe and hypo- 
When the head-ach attends an acute fever, with pale urine, it ig 
an unfavorable symptom. In excessive head-achs, coldness of the ex- 
tremities is a bad sign. When it continues long, and is very vio- — 
minates in blindness, apoplexy, deafness, palsy, or 
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Tue Coure.—If symptomatic of some other disease, it is to be 
driven away by the removal of the disease which occasions it. | 
_ If it proceeds from the stomach, give an emetic, as lobelia, blood- 
root, ipecac, &c. These can seldom come amiss, for they relax the 
constriction and equalize the circulation, thereby relieving the head. 
_ Bathe the head freely with the anodyne wash—it. gives great relief. 
If attended with costiveness, remove that. If it proceeds from an 
acrid serum in the blood, blisters may be applied to the back of the 
neck, strong purgatives administered, and general remedies used for 
quickening and strengthening the blood. The fever powders, and 
other diaphoretics are appropriate. Opiates may be given to allay 
the severity ofthe pain. Sneezing powders must not be omitted. 
_ The feet and legs should be bathed in warm water, and drawing 
oultices may be applied. For common drink, valerian tea is ex- 
affecting the nerves. Electricity often removes it. 
If arising from fermentation in the stomach, the sal eratus and 
rhubarb mixture, taken continually for a time, will be found to re- 
move it. Asa substitute for the anodyne wash, in cases of inflam- — 
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mation, salt dissolved in vinegar may beused. Be 
‘When the head-ach arises from a vitiated state of the humors, asait 
the scurvy and venereal disease, the proper remedies for those dis- 
eases become proper; as the anti-mercurial syrup, decoctions of 
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___When the head-ach is so intolerable as to endanger the patient’s — 
fe;-or is attended with continual delirium, opiates may be given} 
as twenty drops of laudanum in a cup of valerian or pennyroyal tea, — 
twice or thrice a day. At the same time the head should be bathed 
constantly with the anodyne wash, while draughts of mustard seed, 
or horse-radish, ought to be applied to thetfeet. 
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Tooth-ach may proceed from obstructed perspiration, wet feet, 
any of the other causes of inflammation ; from neglecting the usual 
