Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — How to Cure a Headache. [ARTICLE]

How to Cure a Headache.

Dyspeptio or bilious headache is very common, and, it seems to me, it is the headache which is most ea illy traceable to its cause and most reaoiJy avoided without medicine. Every one who has suffered from it knows, as well as I can tell them, the cause and remedy. Is it the old story of appetite, indulgence and punishment. ■ ■ ; ■ If you wish to know my advice for curing bilious headache, I say—Don’t get it. Eat such food as agrees with you; be temperate in All things, and be as regular as clock-work about your habits. In the case of young people this headache can always be traoed to some error in diet—as rich food in immoderate quality, eating at unreasonable or unusual hours, drinking wine or beer, eta, etc.—and it readily gives, way to an emetic and sleep. Almost any emetic will do—ipecac or sulphate of zinc. In the case of elderly persons, however, the headaches although less aoute, are apt to he more tedious and more exhausting. Best in bed, cold applications to the head, and some purgative medicine taken so as to operate in the morning, will usually effect a cure.