CLASS 1. 2. 4. 11. OF IRRITATION. 1 13 



retrograde motions of the alimentary canal, and of some parts of 

 the absorbent system. 



The hypochondriasis,like chlorosis, is sometimes attended with 

 very quick pulse; which the patient seems to bear so easily in 

 these two maladies, that if an accidental cough attends them, 

 they may be mistaken for pulmonary consumption; which is 

 not owing primarily to the debility of the heart, but to its direct 

 sympathy with the actions of the stomach. 



M. M. Blister. A plaster of Burgundy pitch on the abdo- 

 men. Opium a grain twice a day. Rhubarb six grains every 

 night. Bark. Steel. Spice. Bath-water. Siesta, or sleep 

 after dinner. Uniform hours of meals. No liquor stronger 

 than small beer, or wine and water. Gentle exercise on horse- 

 back in the open air uniformly persisted in. See Cardialgia, I. 

 2. 4. 5. 



11. CephalcmidiopaiJnca. Head-achs which are attended with 

 inflammation, are termed phrenitis, described in Class II. 1. 

 2. 3. Those which are not attended with inflammation, may 

 be divided into such as affect the whole head, to which the 

 word cephalaea is applied, and into such as affect one side of the 

 head only at a time, which is termed hemi crania. The former 

 of these may be divided into cephalaea idiopathica, and cephalaea 

 sympathetica; and the latter into hemicrania idiopathica, and 

 hemicrania sympathetica. Besides these there exists a cephalaea 

 sornniosa, a cephalasa syphilitica, and a cephalaea hydropica. 



The idiopathic head-ach frequently attends the cold paroxysm 

 of intermittents; afflicts inebriates the day after intoxication; 

 and many people who remain too long in the cold bath. In all 

 which cases there is a general inaction of the whole system, and 

 as these membranes about the head have been more exposed to 

 the variations of heat and cold of the atmosphere, they are more 

 liable to become affected so far as to produce sensation, than other 

 membranes; which are usually covered either with clothes, or 

 with muscles, as mentioned in Sect. XXXIII. 2. 10. 



The promptitude of the membranes about the scalp to sym- 

 pathize with those of other parts of the system is so great, that 

 this cephalaea without fever, or quickness of pulse, is more fre- 

 quently a secondary than a primary disease, and then belongs to 

 Class IV. 2. 2. 7. The hemicrania, or partial head-ach, I be- 

 lieve to be almost always a disease from association; though it 

 is not impossible, but a person may take cold on one side of the 

 head only. As some people by sitting always on the same side 

 of the fire in winter are liable to render one side more tender 

 than the other, and in consequence more subject to pains, which 

 have been erroneously termed rheumatic. 



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