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NERVE VIBRATIONS. 69
is most beautifully demonstrated. I have, with treatment of
these nerves, also cured severe headaches in fevers. During my
stay at Pola there was a slight epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
A naval officer was brought to the hospital, suffering from this
disease. He had had for four days and nights most severe
headache and fever. Antipyrin, subcutaneous injections of
morphia, and other remedies, had been tried, but the headache
did not diminish, nor did he obtain sleep. I was asked to try to
relieve him. I gave him frictions over these nerves, alternating
Fig. 36.
with constant pressure, vibrations on the vertex in the line of
the longitudinal sinus, as described before, together with some
other passive movements which lead the blood from the head,
and finished up with general petrissage of the abdomen. After
the first treatment in the morning, the headache disappeared, and
the patient slept for some hours. I treated him again in
the afternoon and evening. As the latter approached, he had
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