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CASES ILLUSTRATING THE TREATMENT 139
over. She had fallen on the left side of the face. The chiu
received the hardest blow, and was very badly bruised and open.
The lower hp was cut through by the teeth in two places. The
greatest swelUngs were over the two named places, and over the
malar bone. The nose was swollen, but not broken. The right
maxillary joint was very tender, and she could only open the
mouth very little. Considerable pain was present in this
region. The head ached.
Progress and Treatment.—The pain was taken away and the
swelhng greatly diminished by vibrations and light kneadmgs.
The wounds through the lip were brought together with silk
plaster, as she would not allow me to stitch them up ;
that on
the chin was left open. I also gave nerve frictions in the neck
for the headache. The patient felt well enough on leaving.
Aug. 8th. Wlien she called at my house the following morning,
there was no dark discoloration anywhere, except on the lower
lid of the eye. The lower jaw was more movable. She had
slept pretty well, but was now and then awakened if she turned
over to the side on which the injuries were. All the sensory
branches on the skull and forehead were exceedingly sensitive.
I went to her house in the evening and treated her again. Treat-
ment same as yesterday. In the afternoon a feeling of sickness
with giddiness and severe headache set in, and increased until seven
o’clock, when I paid my visit. She could not bear any light in the
room ; would on no account open her eyes. The pulse was
seventy beats a minute, slightly irregular. The seat of the pain
she said was deep in the middle of the head. She was some-
what drowsy. I made frictions over the second pair of cervical
nerves and light vibrations on the eyes (fig. 32)—in all for
about twenty minutes. The headache was relieved by this, and
she could open the eyes, the gaslight causing her no incon-
venience.
The feeling of sickness remained, and for it I gave general
petrissage of the abdomen, accompanied by light vibrations in
the pit of the stomach. The sickness then passed away. She
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