. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . thoui constipation are often occipital, sometimes constipatioD and intestinal irritation they are diffuse and i, line and ovarian headaches are occipital and vertical. In neuropathicheadaches the pain is referred to the top of the head, as in clavus ; or it maybe associated with spinal irritation. Neurasthenic headaches arc usuallyassociated with a sense of pressure or weight, and are seated in the frontaland vertical regions. In spinal irritation the pain is of a boring charac-ter and situated in
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . thoui constipation are often occipital, sometimes constipatioD and intestinal irritation they are diffuse and i, line and ovarian headaches are occipital and vertical. In neuropathicheadaches the pain is referred to the top of the head, as in clavus ; or it maybe associated with spinal irritation. Neurasthenic headaches arc usuallyassociated with a sense of pressure or weight, and are seated in the frontaland vertical regions. In spinal irritation the pain is of a boring charac-ter and situated in the occipital region. The earliest symptom of theneurasthenic headache is neck-weariness and pain in the neck. Neuras-thenic headaches occur in brain-workers when the brain and eyes are over-taxed. Headaches in epilepsy are severe, and are limited to the vertical or occipital region. Organic headaches are usually violent, associated with fulness andthrobbing of the head. They may be remittent, becoming more intense Fig. and Ovariai Gastric andNaso-pharyngeal. Neurasthenia Location of pain in various forms of headache with each exacerbation. Organic headaches may be due to inflamma-tion, to abscess and softening, to tumor, to congestion of the brain, or toinflammations in the meninges. Anything that increases the quantityof blood in the vessels of the head will increase the pain in organic head-aches. In acute inflammation of the brain the pain is agonizing, con-tinuous, associated with vomiting and fever and sometimes delirium. Inabscess of the brain the pain is less violent. It is occasionally paroxysmaland attended by paralysis and disturbed intellection. In tumor of the1 train the headache is severe and paroxysmal. In congestion the pain isdull, increased by stooping, by sleep, and by bodily or mental congestive headaches are due to violent exercise, and are relievedby bleeding at the nose. In all congestive headaches the face is flushed,the bloodvess
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