Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — An Easy Headache Cure. [ARTICLE]

An Easy Headache Cure.

A good cure for headache lies in the Simple act of walking backward, .lust try it some time If you have any doubt about it. A correspondent says: ”1 have yet to meet a person who didn’t acknowledge its efficacy after a trial. Nobody lias yet dlsovered or formulated a reason why such a process should bring certain relief. “Physicians say that it is probably because the reflex action of the body brings about a reflex action of the brain, and thus drives away the pain that, when produced by uervousneaa, is tin result of too much going forward. As soon us you begin to walk backward, however, there conies a sensation of every tiling being reversed, and that is followed by relief. The relief is always certain and generally speedy. Ten minutes is the longest 1 have ever found it necessary. An entry, or a long, narrow room makes the best place for such a promenade. You should walk very slowly, letting the ball of your foot touch the floor first, and then the heel- Just the way, In fact, that one should, in theory, walk forward. but which, in practice, is so rarely done. Besides curing nervous headache, there is no better way to learn to walk well nnd gracefully forward than the practice of walking backward.”