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lical migraine Lave for years kept their sufferings in abeyance 

 by taking hemp at the threatening or onset of the attack. In 

 sciatica, myodynia, gastrodynia, enteralgia, tinnitus auriuni, 

 muscle volitantes, and every kind of so-called hysterical pain, 

 cannabis indica is without value. On the other hand, it relieves 

 the lightning pains of Ataxia, and also the multiform miseries 

 of the gouty, such as tingling, formication, numbness, and other 

 para3sthesiai. 



In clonic spasm, whether epileptoid or choreic, hemp is of 

 great service. In the Eclampsia of children or adults, from 

 worms, teething (the first, second, or third dentition), it gives 

 relief by itself in many cases. Many cases of so-called Epilepsy 

 in adults — epileptoid convulsions, due often to gross organic 

 nerve-centre lesions — are greatly helped by cannabis indica, 

 when they are not afPected by the bromides or other druj2;s- 

 Take, for instance, violent convulsions in an overfed man, who 

 is attacked during sleep a few hours after a hearty supper, the 

 attacks recurring two or three times an hour for a day or two, in 

 spite of " clearing the primce vise," or using bromine or some 

 other classic drug. These attacks may be stopped at once with 

 a full dose of hemp. In brain tumours or other maladies in 

 the course of which epileptoid seizures occur, followed by coma, 

 the coma being followed by delirium, — first quiet, then violent 

 the delirium time after time passing into convulsions, and 

 the whole gamut being repeated, Indian hemp will at once cut 

 short such abnormal activities, even when all other treatment 



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has failed. In genuine eplle23sy it is of no avail. In cases where 

 it has seemed to do good, the author doubts the correctness of 

 the diagnosis, and suspects organic lesion or eccentric irrita- 

 tion. In tonic spasmsj such as torticollis and writers' cramp, 

 in general chorea, in paralysis agitans, in trismus, tetanus, and 

 the jerky movements of spinal sclerosis, cannahis indica has 

 proved absolutely useless. At the same time, it is most valu- 

 able m the Nocturnal Cramps of gouty or old persons, in some 

 cases of Spasmodic Asthma, and in simple Spasmodic Dys- 

 mcnorrhoea. Thus it will be perceived that for the relief of 

 suffering, quite apart from a cxirative effect, hemp must ever 



