A treatise on headaches : including acute, chronic, nervous, gastric, dyspeptic, or sick-headaches : also congestive, rheumatic, and periodical headaches : based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy, with introduction, appendix, synopsis, notes, directions for doses, and fifty additional cases / by John C. Peters.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A treatise on headaches : including acute, chronic, nervous, gastric, dyspeptic, or sick-headaches : also congestive, rheumatic, and periodical headaches : based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy, with introduction, appendix, synopsis, notes, directions for doses, and fifty additional cases / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These divisions are of importance to the homceopathist, as they impress still more forcibly, upon him the necessity of selecting a remedy which acts, not only on the part of the head involved by the Hemicrania, but which will also regu late the variously disturbed functions of distant organs. Hygienic treatment of Nervous Headaches. A general invigorating mode of life, diet and exercise are considered indispensable. Those who have brought them on by sedentary habits, much mental exertion and loss of sleep, must reform; they must exercise freely and regularly in the open air, sleep sufficiently; and avoid the excessive worry and perplexity of engrossing cares, or they may ultimately be forced to take a journey into the country, or a long voyage, to save their minds from becoming perfectly wrecked. If the patient be in the habit of using strong tea, coffee or tobacco habitually and excessively, he must try the effect of abandoning them, for three or four weeks at least. It is ordinarily thought sufficient to abstain from the use of coffee and green tea, but Wood had one striking instance occur to him, in which a patient, after suffering long and severely with nervous headache, obtained an entire exemption from it, by abstaining from the use of Mack tea, which was his only indulgence. The shower-bath, and salt water bathing, either at the sea-side, or in the house, are often useful adjuncts. Boerhaave advised persons who suffered from chronic head- aches to use a warm bath frequently, and to rub their feet briskly every morning with a piece of flannel, or cloth dipped in cold water. Osiander says, if people would but rise every morning, at 5 o'clock ; and continue it during the summer, or take an hour's walk before breakfast, they would get rid of their headaches. He also affirms that simply combing the hair carefully and constantly, just before going to bed, relieved a lady from chronic headache. Hard rubbing of the feet with rough cloths after a foot bath is one of the best external remedies, according to Bushan. The meals of the patient should be taken regularly, and