Cephalalgy and massage / by Gustaf Norström.

  • Norström, Gustaf.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Cephalalgy and massage / by Gustaf Norström. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a violent pain on a level with the ankle bones and on the external part of the leg.” He says: “I have some- times noticed that massage of the glutens medius on a level with its insertion to the crista ilii makes the pains disappear.” I have several times been able to make the same re- mark. A patient complained of violent sufferings in the calf and the foot along the two branches of the sciatic nerve; pressure did not produce any effect. All depended upon a limited myositis of the glutens medius, which was easily cured with massage. I have at different times noticed the existence of a pain and swelling rather marked on a level with the upper and middle ganglia of the cervical sympathetic nerve. This fact is interesting. Beard, Rockwell, Brunner, Bene- dict, had already noticed it. It was the corner-stone of Dubois-Raymond’s theory of hemicrania; the sink- ing of the eye in the orbit, the hardness of the temporal nerves, the anaemia of the face were, according to him, consequences of the same process; vom- iting depended on variations of intra cranial pressure. In all this only one single organ was the cause: the cer- vical sympathetic nerve. The sensitiveness to pressure on the ganglia, the almost complete disappearance, when the attack was over, proved it. I have already said that I did not intend to undertake a nosological discussion on the nature of migraine. I only state that in my observa- tions there were inflammatory lesions in the muscular system, in some of them also of the nerves of the scalp, the forehead and in the upper and middle cervical ganglia.