Headaches : their nature, causes, and treatment / [William Henry Day].

  • Day, William Henry, 1830-1907.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Headaches : their nature, causes, and treatment / [William Henry Day]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plausible theories. It is on actual facts I have attempted to lay the basis of the treatment and management which appear to me best adapted to meet the varieties and peculiarities of headache. In all search for truth facts must be recognised, however they appear to contradict an apparently secure and well-established principle. To grasp the general con- ception and meaning of any subject in which the operations of nature are concerned, and from which a reasonable solution is expected, we must establish the conclusions which lead up to principles on the sure foundation of fact, and not, like the French philosopher, think it so much the worse for the facts if they are not included in our theory. If theory is unsupported by fact, our view and opinions entail disastrous consequences, and any line of argument we may have adopted is rendered utterly futile. I may here remark that several works have recently issued from the medical press on the subject of head- ache, teeming with interest both to the patient and the practitioner. Headache has always been carefully studied in its clinical aspect, but the recent advance of physiological knowledge, as derived from experi- ment, has given a new and powerful stimulus to the study of the diseases of the nervous system. Not only has it furnished a stimulus, but it has tended much to clear up our impressions as to the pathology