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160 CASES ILLUSTRATING THE TREATMENT
ments, and, as special applications for the migraine, frictions
over the nerves of the head and neck ; for the palpitation, nerve
frictions between the shoulders and vibrations over the apex of
the heart.
At the end of January the attacks were less frequent, and
very often, although the premonitory symptoms appeared in the
morning, no headache followed, as treatment in the forenoon
intervened. Palpitation has not occurred after the first week
of treatment. During this month the patient has been treated
regularly every day.
In the last week of February the treatment was discontinued,
as there had been no headache for some time. When they had
come on they disappeared after a short application of nerve
fiictions, alternating with pressure over the second cer\’ical pairs.
The treatment had not been given regularly during this month,
often only two or three times a week. The general condition
has greatly improved ; no palpitation during the month.
XXVII. ACUTE INFLAMMATOEY GASTEO-INTESTINAL
CATAEEH IN" A CHILD.
H. S., aged 15 months, was during the night of the 10th July
1889 suddenly seized with vomiting and diarrhoea. Up tiU
then he had been perfectly well. The stools grew more frequent
towards the morning, occurring every half - hour or twenty
minutes.
I first saw the child at 8 A.M. on the morning of the 11th of
July. The face had a pinched expression, the spaces round the
eyes were dark and sunken, the fontanelles depressed. He was
lying in a listless position, feebly whimpering every now and
then. The pulse was very feeble, and went at the rate of l70
beats in the minute; the temperature was 102-2°. The motions
were watery, intermingled with little lumps and some blood.
Treatment and Progress. —The local treatment consisted of
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