Remedy For Headaches.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1902, 4 June 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

Remedy For Headaches.

When in certain painful affections the physician advires tbe use of cold applications, and if the effect from them is not pleasing, then that hot •should he tried, tha patient is likely to consider it rather an uncertain sort of treatment, of doubtful value cither way. It ie, indeed, rather a ourious thing that heat and cold can often be used interchangeably with like effects. Extreme beat will dettroy the skin, and extreme cold will do the same. Now, headache is sometimes relieved by hot applications,and yet in some instances it aggravates the trouble. In ease of the latter, oftentimes the cold applications will effect a cure. As a general rule, a throbbing headache, with tenderness and soreness of the eoalp, can best be relieved by hot applications ; whereas, when the head feel a full and " bursting," if cold be applied to the head, and heat to tbe neck and spine, tbe affect is most agreeable. Probably one of the best external applications whioh is most serviceable in the different forms of headache is menthol. A solution of that should be made in about the proportion of one drachm of menthol to ten of alcohol. It can be applied on a thin strip of cloth large enough to cover the forehead. That should be kept wet with the solution. It is very cooling, and tbe effeot in many cases of headache is very agreeable from the first.