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Show HATPIN HEADACHES. Several peculiar cases of headaches among women patlenta of a young West Philadelphia doctor have been discovered by him to be due to hatpins. "I was baffled baf-fled for a long time," he says, "by a patient pa-tient who was an inveterate trolleyw-lder, and I 'attributed the malady to the strong wind to which she subjected herself during dur-ing such rides. She persisted in the riding, rid-ing, however, so I set my wits to work, and when- she told me that once when her hat had blown off and she had had to tie it on she had stopped the headache, I suggestedxthatvnext time she should take her hat oft and hold It In her lap. This she did, and missed the headache tagatn. I tritd the same remedy on other patients, pa-tients, with the same result. It's clear that the pins which hold on a large hat In a high wind tug at the roots of the hair until a headache is started. I find, too. upon comparing notes, that I am not the original discoverer of this kind of headache." head-ache." Philadelphia Record. |