xtracts as applicable to the cure of those maladies.

Most cases of nervous diseases that come to us, for examination and
treatment, do so after having tried, without success, treatment by
baths, enforced seclusion, as well as unskillfully applied electrical
treatment and massage. Prolonged medication has frequently aroused
digestive disorders and made the patient hate the sight of the medicine
bottle. In such cases our improved methods, as applied in the
Institution and also prescribed for patients at a distance, enable our
specialists to give relief and effect cures with a minimum of medicine.
They also enable us to treat many cases of nervous diseases heretofore
regarded as almost hopeless, such as locomotor ataxia, paralysis,
epilepsy and spinal affections, with a degree of success which has been
very gratifying alike to physicians and patients.

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HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA.

There is no ill to which flesh is heir that is the source of a greater
degree of discomfort to the human race than headache. The farmer,
housewife, banker, merchant and laborer seem to be equally prone to the
affliction and all who suffer have a great number of days rendered
uncomfortable and unhappy by the presence of this most unpleasant
affection. Pain is the warning finger of disease--the threatening
indication of coming trouble. In headache, we have an indication that
the system is subjected to some strain or injurious impression. It may
be that the eyes have been overworked or the brain unnaturally taxed; or
that the nervous and physical systems have not been properly refreshed
by sufficient sleep, and have used up the residue of reserve power. Many
suffer from headache only after they have been subjected to sudden
changes of temperature and have taken cold; others only when the bowels
have become inactive, the liver torpid and the blood vitiated with
retained poisons.

All appreciate the discomfort that results from this malady and
earnestly seek for permanent relief.

Headaches may be divided in two classes: (1) those due to the presence
of poisons in the blood, and (2) those due to irritation of various
organs, as of the eyes, stomach, liver, and intestines.

Of the first form, or variety, of headache, influenza, or grip, and
acute "cold in the head," are the most common causes. These give rise to
most excruciating pain. There is congestion, followed by inflammation in
the nasal pass