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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 Excerpt: ...she has taken, without any effect, and the absence of all other peryouj nervous symptoms, there is reason to conclude, that her complaint is the offspring of another cause. The next cause I mentioned in order, was that of an intermittent or periodical kind; and from thisi also, the continual duration, and equable degree of the pain, seem justly to remove our suspicion. As to the venereal taint, I know not whether you have questioned her husband. The interrogation would certainly hot be improper. In town, I often suspect complaints of this kind to be occasioned by a venereal cause, and generally find my conjecture' confirmed by the method of cure. But in the present case, it is more likely to be otherwise. The rheumatism is the last of the general causes which I mentioned as productive of the Hemicrania, and is h 4 also C also the source to which I am inclined to ascribe the complaint of our patient. I own, that in this cafe my opinion is chiefly supported by the apparent improbability of the influence of any of the other causes. For you do not mention that ever she was subject to any rheumatic disorder; the certainty of which would add some weight to my conclusion. In searching for the origin of obscure complaints, however, we often must be satisfied with resting our opinion on the most plausible foundation, without being too scrupulous in regard to the solution of every pathological difficulty., Admitting the disorder to be of the rheumatic kind, the seat of it ought next to be ascertained. The left side of the head is the part affected; but whether the disorder be in the membranes within the cranium, the bones, or in the jnteguments, is a point of which we are nos certain. For I do not consider the absence fence of pain, on touching that part of th...

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