On the sick headache / by James Mease.

  • Mease, James, 1771-1846.
Date:
[1824]
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Credit: On the sick headache / by James Mease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PHILADELPHIA JOURNAL MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES. Art. I. On the Sick Headache. By James Mease, M. D. X HE painful nature of this disease, its annual increase^, and a belief that I can suggest some hints on the causes that produce it, by attending to which it may be prevented, and some remedies that will remove it when actually pre- sent, have induced me to put my thoughts, and the result of my observations, on paper: and I shall be happy if I prove the means of effecting the relief I wish to the afflicted. This disease is the result of our advanced state of civil- ization, the increase of wealth and of enjoyments in the power of most people in this country, and, I may add, of the luxurious and enervating habits in which those in easy circumstances indulge. It is unknown among the natives of our forests, or among those of the frontier inhabitants whose necessities oblige them to live in a manner the reverse of that common among the inhabitants of the Atlantic states, and particularly of our large cities and towns, among whom the complaint very generally prevails. Some of their habits, against which I shall caution my readers, are indeed of a nature calculated to lay the foundation of the complaint. But the vigour of their constitutions derived from original stamina., and daily exposure to pure air, aided by constant Y