Recurrent headaches in children / by Francis Warner.

  • Warner, Francis, 1847-1926.
Date:
[1879?]
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Credit: Recurrent headaches in children / by Francis Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [.Reprinted from “ Br art XL) rsA ?/■• K; tJi \m / /?=• RECURRENT HEADACHES IN CHILDREN A * sr BY FRANCIS WARNER, M.D. LOND., M.R.C.P. Assistant Physician to the London Hospital, and to the East London Hospital for Children. Headaches are of such common occurrence in young people that no physician whose observations are made largely among children, can fail to meet with many cases in which headache is the main subject of complaint. In dealing with this group ol cases from a scientific point of view, it is evidently necessary to define the physical conditions which may be taken as signs of that mobile or irritable condition of the nervous system in which headaches are so common. Che study of diseased conditions of the brain has been greatly advanced by observing the conditions of the muscles of the face, eyes, limbs, trunk, &c. It is by the clonic muscu- lar twitchings in chorea that we know the brain is choreic ; it is by the condition of hemiplegia we are led to infer that there is a lesion in the basic ganglia of the opposite hemi- sphere ; it is by the observation of labio-glosso-laryngeal para- lysis that we diagnose disease of the olivary body. If, then, we would conduct our observations in the case of children who suffer from recurrent headaches on principles and lines of in- vestigation similar to those which have led to important results m the study of chorea, hemiplegia, and other cases of organic disease, we must carefully observe the condition of the muscu- lar system in such patients. Following upon these lines of argument, I have in many cases examined and recorded the conditions of muscles supplied by cranial nerves, and those of the upper extremities. It is a matter of common observation that a patient may “ look as if he had a headache.” Such an appearance of the ;face can only result from its • colour, form, or mobile conditions, for these are its only distin- guishing characteristics. B