| Show NEW ANEW CURE FOR HEADACHE tapping the head with the ringers often gives gires temporary heller tt is surprising to what an extent mechanical vibrations are now employed to act upon the morbid conditions of the sensitive nervous system says the st louis lonis republic debou det of pris paris has been able to produce local anaesthesia by conducting fine and exceedingly rapid vibrations half way up the roots of the teeth and to perform one of the most painful dental denta operations that of extracting the ai living v nerves from the teeth without the patient feeling any pain charcot has successfully used the vibratory treatment for sick headache and for certain nervous diseases accompanied by pain as well as certain mental conditions accompanied by depression A very simple form of this treatment is recommended by 31 Dour durki of moscow while he was as one day examining a patient who was aras auff suffering rin from an excia elating hea hear heartache lache lie used P percussion reus sion of the i ram iram jonii 3 i 4 as is line one for 0 t chest t a ar 1 i r 43 a whether any material lesion was i perceptible two or three minutes minute after his examination lie he was greatly astonished toni shed to hear his patient say that the headache had completely disappeared 11 has bince practiced this method with much success especially in cases there was wa sno no apparent cause for headache i or when it assumed the nervous form the percussion must be made lightly with only one or two fingers without producing any unpleasant or too pronounced sensation and the intensity of the taps can be gradually increased in this way a vibratory massage e is administered which is calculated to remove the distressing symptoms it is evident that in many cases this relief can be only momentary and the cause of the headache must then bo be discovered in order that a cure may be effected |
