Two weeks later there was another headache, which began on waking, was worse in the occiput, and extended to neck and back. There was the sensation of a tight band around the head, the eyes felt pulled back, and there was an < from stooping. Sepia 1M. improved conditions promptly.
This remedy has proved continuously helpful, in spite of an attack of grippe that demanded other medicines for a week or more. A beginning headache has been stopped by a dose of Sepia and the menstrual condition has been much relieved.
The menopause is evidently approaching and that, with the nervous tension under which the patient lives, makes the case far from simple. However, Mrs. B. is much better off than she was. She told me lately that it was almost three months since she had had a real headache.
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.
DISCUSSION.
DR. GOBAR: This paper is illustrative of these cases that help us. A headache is one of the bugbears of medicine. It is one of the most frequent things with which we have to deal, and of course is only a symptom among other symptoms. To get a new angle on headaches is an excellent thing.
DR. SCHWARTZ: I think of the days when I was back in Cincinnati as a nurse. Even the allopaths know that Nux vomica is a good remedy during the period of a womans life when she is nervous, with pelvic symptoms and headaches resulting from it. The only thing is they give it in such large doses, but they do know it is helpful at that time when there is constipation, irritability, and many of the symptoms Dr. Stevens mentioned.
