Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — To Relieve an Overworked Brain. [ARTICLE]

To Relieve an Overworked Brain.

A. Swiss doctor says that many per. sons who extend their mental work well into the night, who during an evening follow attentively the programme of a theater or concert, or who devote evenings to the proceedings of societies or clubs, are awak. ened In the morning or in the night with headache. He is particular to say that he does not refer to that headache which our Teutonic brethren designate “ Katzcnjammer,” which follows certain convivial indulgences. This headache affects many persona who are quite well otherwise, and la due in part to the previous excessive work of the brain, whereby an abnormal flow of blood to that organ fa' caused, and in part to other causes—for example, too great heat of rooms, contamination of the air with carbonic acid, exhalations from human bodies, and tobacco smoke. For a long while the doctor was himself a sufferer from headache of this kind, but of late years has wholly protected himself from It by simple means. When he is obliged to continue his brain-work- into the evening, or to be out late at night in rooms not well ventilated, instead of going directly to bed, he takes a brisk walk for half an hour or an hour. While taking this tramp, he stops now and then and practices lung gymnastics by breathing in. and out deeply a few times. When he then goes to bed, he sleeps soundly. Notwithstanding the shortening of the hours of sleep, he awakes with no trace of headache.