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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    DO ing day the crisis is over and she only feels general weak- ness. Most often the attacks are produced by atmospheric changes, damp or cold weather, a wind gust on the nape, spe- cially when the transition is sudden, and particularly when the patient is perspiring. She says that in these conditions she often got torticollis. Attacks also easily come on when she has been reading for a long time, sewing on a white background or looking at pic- tures in museums. By and by the eyes get tired, the pain is extended to the frontal region, and radiates to the whole head. Since four or five years the pains seem to have quite cliauged. The real attacks no longer exist. The patient awakes with headache; it at once attains its maximum of violence; much less violent, however, than formerly, although it lasts longer. When I saw her for the first time iu the year 1887 she had suffered without interruption for two months; some- times in the night, as well as in the day. The pain was insignificant in the course of the later pregnancies; it became violent, however, and almost unbearable during the suckling. The patient, who had followed several treatments and fre- quented several mineral stations, only felt amelioration after a stay at La Bourboule. Galvanism, tried for a long time, increased her pain to such an extent that the treatment be- came intolerable. Morphine, quinine, antipyrine, antifebrine were not more easily tolerated, and d,u not give any better results. On the right side, a muscular induration of the size of a nut is found in the upper edge of the trapezius; when I pressed on this level the patient complains of an acute pain in the top of the head. Resistance, very painful on pres- sure, in the scaleni. Middle cervical ganglion swollen and painful. On the left, in the thickness of the trapezius, small lump, of the breadth of a dime, corresponding to the cervical portion; another induration on a level with the insertion of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle. The skin and the sub-cutaneous