Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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therefore, the liverbecomes so diseased as not to do this, the blood becomes loadedwith these bilious properties, and the digestion becomes in a measureimpaired. These irritating matters in the blood visit the head aswell as other portions of the body, and coming within sensible con-tact with the delicate nerves therein, cause irritations which makothemselves felt in the form of aches; and these aches are aggravatedby the disturbed digestion en-suing from the absence of thebilious properties from thelower stomach. The bile isjust where it is not wanted.In the duodenum it is useful;in the circulation it is a mis-chief-maker; and while neg-lecting its own business, it ismeddling with that of others;a result not unfrequently metwith when people do notattend to their own affairs. There is still another way inwhich bilious headache of aperiodical kind may be pro-duced. In some constitutions,the accumulation of bile in thecirculation causes little elsebut drowsiness or heaviness, Fig. 104.
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HEADACHE. until all at once a crisis arrives, 406 ACHES AND PAINS. the liver suddenly awakens from its inaction, and takes np andpours into the lower stomach, bile in such immoderate quantities asto irritate the duodenum, causing it to contract and eject quantitiesof the irritating fluid into the upper stomach where the food is firstreceived after passing the mouth and the oesophagus. The presenceof this intruder causes intolerable nausea or sickness, and such $disturbance of the stomach nerves, that the nerves of the headbecome involved, producing what i3 commonly called sick-headache,?vhich usually continues until relief is obtained by vomiting. Whenthe bile is entirely removed from the stomach by this effort, thoheadache disappears. If in any case, or at any time, the duodenumcan prevent this reverse action, and carry the deluge of bilious matterdownward into the intestines, bilious diarrhoea instead of headachetakes place. It is for this reason that some persons subject to sick-he

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