WOMEN'S HEADACHES.
No doubt the headaches of women have many different causes. One of them is the fact that their lives are far more indoors -than that of men and in an air less pure. Another' i-fmse of headache is the frequent attack of acute indigestion. The. effect is about the same as in the other case; the poisons generated in the digestive tract are absorbed into the blood and affect the nerve centres, causing headache. When a headache comes on the thing to be done is to get the poison out of the system as quickly as possible. A copious enema of quite warm water will wash away some of it from the lower bowels, and this will make way for matter above to pass on. Copious hot water drinking or a vomit will help to cleanse the stomach. It remains next to cleanse the blood. This is best done by breathing fresh air in as great abundance as possible. If not able to go out of doors, lie quietly in a bed in a cool room well ventilated, and breathe all you can. Sometimes the effect of deep breathing temporarily increases the pain. Then make less effort, but breathe all you can. The habit of taking medicine of any sort for headaches is vicious and in the end harmful. While medicines sometimes give temporary relief they do not remove the cause. They are a broken reed instead of a true support.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 259, 9 November 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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