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58 FASSIVU MOVEMENTS:
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NERVES OF THE HEAD AND NECK.
Nervus Occipitalis Major, Nervus Occipitalis Minor,
and Nervus Auricularis Major.
These are all branches of the second pair of cervical nerves,
the latter also having a root from the third pair. We find
them best a little below the lower half of the mastoid process
(fig. 35). Frictions there cause a feeling of coldness to run
Fig. 35.
down over the body ; and if they are made strongly, pain is
felt, not only at the points of application of the fingers, but
also inside the head, as far forward as the frontal region, and
up on the vertex.
Treatment of these nerves relieves headache and congestion of
the brain, and its efiect is extremely good in hemicrania, sleep-
lessness, etc. In migraine, the above-mentioned feeling of pain
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