Latham, P: On Nervous or Sick-Headache, Its Varieties and Tr

Excerpt from On Nervous or Sick-Headache, Its Varieties and Treatment: Two Lectures Delivered at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

Gentlemen, - We have lately discharged from the hospital a young man, aged 17, whose condition during the short-time he remained here did not fall very far short of the standard of health. He was somewhat anaemic, and of rather stunted growth, but he was sharper and more intelligent than the generality of his class: with these exceptions, there was nothing about his general condition which calls for remark. He had been troubled, however, with four slight attacks of what is variously called nervous headache, sick-headache, or bilious headache: the attacks commencing with mistiness before the eyes, and succeeded by unilateral frontal pain, nausea and vomiting. This afi'ection does not often come under our observation in the hospital, though I suspect that, if carefully inquired after, the per centage of patients liable to the disorder would not be found so small as is generally supposed to be the.

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