Show I I I PJ r l rl I I l l il I l lJ ll all i s I I ff l lj I III I J I I 1116 r r r l 1 j r z I Jill l m m 1 1 Jr Il 1 Ii W ur h TALKS lr t 1 II N b 1 l. l JI h B BRADY rho w I Dizziness I I I Vertigo is the medical Latin for COl dizziness diz diz- the the doctors simply must lIa have lIae havea e ea a trade name for things thing In following oll Ing the trail of head noises tin the other othel day we Incidentally tabulated d some Slime of or the causes cause of or and it occurred d to us that now would be le a n. good time to answer the thuU thousand or 11 orso orso so of oC letters which read rend like this Please tell mo me why I am nm dizzy z anti and suggest treatment T Two vo perfectly familiar causes of dizziness din diz ar are aie fainting j 01 or cerebral anemia and arid sunstroke e cel cerebral ebrat cong congestion con- con g c alias hardened harden wax wax In Inthe the ear car canal or pressing res upon the ear car drum Ruin Is a fairly common cause of or otherwise E unexplainable dizziness This demands an examination with headlight ht and ear car speculum loh Tobacco cco excess s sometimes produces li attacks of vertigo vertigo and alcoholic excess ex- ex excess excess ex ex- cess scarcely needs m mention Dizziness Dizziness attributable to stomach trouble Is a doubtful occurrence In a series o of no less leIs than cases of or stomach trouble treated d by hy Dr Dl Stockton Stockton Stock Stock- ton of Buffalo only five fifty complained complained complained com com- of or vertigo o and in only ten of or these lid IUd the dizziness s appear to arise from dr dyspepsia Or Organic or functional disturbance of the labyrinth or Internal ear Is the direct di- di lect reet cause u o of vertigo in hr the great ma m maJority of oe cat cases Seasickness Is supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be ht due to dl disturbance of or lymph circulation In n tho sc semicircular canal of th the Internal ear car Vertigo is isa isa a n. common symptom of or disease or or tu tumor tumor tu- tu mor mOl of or the cerebellum art Ile-art art an and lung rosis and hi high h blood IU ma may y cause attacks of or vertigo goitre r ataxia and chronic middle ear car disease are common causes also I There is such a thing as J physiological ical leal dizziness For instance nn any normal nor nor- mal individual 1 may mav foci feel momentarily nor nor-I j I dizzy when looking down Cl from m a great I I height or up to a rea g-rea great height or ur OrI I when spinning around rapidly as in waltzing without reversing rc Some normal Individuals have vertigo o If Ie the they I ride backward on a train or if they watch moving objects such as a n. snow v sno snow snow- I waterfall storm water flowing under undera I a bridge or clouds cloud floating floating- overhead I In nervous individuals indi this physiological logical dizziness ma may be exaggerated and unduly dwelt on until it becomes an o obsession It reminds one of or the floating specks or spots before the eyes which we all have hac if IC we look sharp enough for them In fact tact a al l keen een student of or human credulity could get up a n. list of or s symptoms all strictly physiological an and persuade abo about t half the human race that something was I wi wrong wrong- ong The he treatment of ot vertigo ws we gather ather from the data in hand consists of or the I correction of the tho habits hy hygiene lenc nu and health of or tho the patient and the this symptom tom seems to warrant a careful examination ex examination examination ex- ex I b by the family doctor in every case I |