A treatise on the nervous diseases of children, for physicians and students . ious diseases. 9. Malaria. 10. Uraemic poisoning. 11. Other toxic conditions. It was the fashion formerly to make a differential diag-nosis of the forms of headaches according either to the HEADACHES. 171 character of the headache or to the seat of the distribution ofthe headache. Thus frontal headaches were considered tobe due to gastric disturbances. Occipital headaches wereconsidered to be almost pathognomonic of uraemic poison-ing ; but he who has an opportunity of seeing a large numberof cases of headaches in th
A treatise on the nervous diseases of children, for physicians and students . ious diseases. 9. Malaria. 10. Uraemic poisoning. 11. Other toxic conditions. It was the fashion formerly to make a differential diag-nosis of the forms of headaches according either to the HEADACHES. 171 character of the headache or to the seat of the distribution ofthe headache. Thus frontal headaches were considered tobe due to gastric disturbances. Occipital headaches wereconsidered to be almost pathognomonic of uraemic poison-ing ; but he who has an opportunity of seeing a large numberof cases of headaches in the adult, as well as in children, willsoon convince himself that these signs are often have seen frontal headaches with disease of the kidneys,and occipital headaches from gastric disturbances and incases of specific disease, of tumor of the brain, etc. The diag-nosis of the kind of headache can, as a rule, be made aftercarefully examining into the general health of the patient, Constipation 1 Caries o( Ituisor f Errors of Refractic Gastric Dyspepsia 1Anxinia ). I Anarmia 1 Neurasthenia Eye Decayed Teeth j Pharyngitis( Otitis Media Fig. 49.—Location of Head-pains. After Dana (slightly altered). Area I. Trigem-inus and Facial Nerve Strands. Area II. Upper Four Cervical Nerve Strands. and endeavoring to find what the fundamental disturbancemay be. It will be better for us, therefore, to take the eti-ological conditions mentioned above, and to endeavor toconnect with each condition a few signs that are generallyassociated with a particular form of headache. 1. Headaches due to anaemia. These headaches occurfrequently in children between the ages of eight and fifteenyears; they are sometimes frontal, generally vertical, andare described, as a rule, as a dull, boring headache, and in themajority of cases are most pronounced early in the morn-ing. They are frequently attended by a slight vertigo anda feeling of faintness, but none of these symptoms is char-acteristic en
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