Pain and its indications : an analytical outline of diagnosis and treatment / by Edward C. Hill.

  • Hill, Edward C. (Edward Curtis), 1863-
Date:
1904
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Credit: Pain and its indications : an analytical outline of diagnosis and treatment / by Edward C. Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. HEADACHE. [Two or more forms often combined.] Organic.—Severe (may prevent sleep) and generally persistent, but variable, not ceasing with stupor or delirium; often circumscribed, with fulness and throbbing; increased by mental or physical effort, coughing, jarring or stooping, or by percussing over area of lesion if cortical; often apparently causeless vomiting, slow breathing and pulse, vertigo, drowsiness, irritability, spasms, paralysis, optic neuritis. General treatment.—Try potassium iodid in large doses for some time; morphin with coca wine and dr.i tinct. hyoscyamus or gr.x chloral. —Corning. Meningitis.—Usually constant and boring (often paroxysmal in tubercular) diffuse frontal, occipital, vertical or parietal; in excess of fever; explosive vomiting, photophobia, stiffness of neck; rapid onset in acute; passes into stupor and coma; patient shrieks out during sleep; no gestures as a rule. Treatment.—Ice bag or ice-cold compresses to head; leeches to mastoid apophyses; wet cups to neck; morphin.—Debove and Douvin. Brain Tumors.—Slow course, paroxysmal and varying—boring, gnawing, splitting, benumbing, local or diffuse; often worse at night; cerebellar