SINGULAR REMEDY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume II, Issue 394, 5 September 1868, Page 2

SINGULAR REMEDY.

A subscriber sends the following extract from the Builder, as n cure for neuralgic headaches, ia« cache, and tooth ov jawache, and lie as- ' sures us that several persons in Nelson have been cured by its appli- i cation :— About ten years si net 1, writes a correspondent of the Builder \ 1 was laid up with an excruciating- \ neuralgic headache, which seemed to encircle the ears of that side of the head alone effected. The idea that the headache had something- to do with the ear us a centre occurred to me, although in the ear there was no pain. I had a little almond-oil, and also spirits, dropped into the ear, but without an} r g-ood effect; when the thought suggested itself that perhaps a little of the anaethetic ether (not the nitric) might do good, by i j • i 'ill deadening tne nervous pain. I had some drops of rectified sulphuric ether, therefore, put into the ear j and, in the course of half an hour, my headache was entirely gone. I have since found, both from our own occasional experience and that of others, that ether, so applied, is in nearly all cases an effectual cure for those very painful headaches,! faceaches, jawaches, and toothaches, which are commonly known as neuralgic and rheumatic. In a very , severe case, two or three days may elapse, during which the pain may i be apt to recur, especially from new and even slight exposure to draughts; but repented application of half a dozen drops, or less, of ether, at a time, seems certain to subdue the most violent attack, sometimes in a very few minutes. A drop or two of

almond or olive-oil, afterwards put into the ear, I have thought, tended to protect from a new -attack. As the ether sometimes gives pain in the ear for a moment while heing- applied, a single drop should first of all he carefully put in, and then more, as the case will allow; but I have never suffered the least bad effect, either in my hearing- or otherwise, from the use of either in this way, nor have I heard of any from others who tried it at my recommendation.-— Nelson Paper.