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severity for about twelve hours, and not unfrequently terminates in 
sickness and vomiting, occurring at intervals for two days after, 
along with a considerable degree of intolerance of light. _ 
As no plan of treatment which she had hitherto made trial of, had 
had any effect upon the disease, she was, without any other means being 
employed, directed to rub at the beginning of one of the accessions, 
part of an ointment of the usual strength, and in the manner already 
described, over the seat of the pain, and to continue the friction until 
relief was obtained. She did so, and in less than half an hour from 
the time the ointment began to be used, the paroxysm entirely left 
her. 
On account of the presence, in this case, of considerable visceral 
derangement, the patient was treated by gentle laxatives, for a short 
time in the way recommended in those previously mentioned, and 
she was ordered to repeat the friction with the Veratria whenever 
the pain returned ; but it has, I believe, never since been found 
necessary. 
CASE VII. 
A apy, thirty years of age, has been for several years labouring 
under tic-douloureux, seated in the right orbit, and extending along 
the course of the frontal nerve as far as the top of the head. The 
paroxysms have been so violent as generally to confine her to bed 
for a day or two at a time, and have made their appearance with the 
greatest severity at the menstrual period, but in other respects she 
has all along been in the enjoyment of good health. She was ordered 
to rub the Veratria ointment, when the attack came on, over the 
whole surface occupied by the pain until relief was experienced: 
this she accordingly did on the first appearance of it: in a few 
minutes it was cut short, and never afterwards returned. 
CASE VIII. 
A GENTLEMAN, aged thirty-five, of a spare habit of body, subject 
to nervous feelings, and accustomed to sedentary occupations, has 
for the last seven years been seized with excruciating fits of pain, 
confined to the right half of the head, and returning by regular 
paroxysms at the end of about every third week. A short time 
before each attack comes on, he suffers much from restlessness and 
irritability, his pulse becomes augmented in frequency, and he 
complains much of impairment of memory ; and after it has ceased, 
i does not return to his usual state of health for two or three 
ays. 
For this affection he was directed, during the paroxysm, to make 
use of frictions with the Veratria ointment, of the usual strength, 
over the seat of the pain ; he first applied it to the forehead, and one 
rubbing was all that was requisite to remove the pain in that situa- 
