Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, Mrs. Lincoln burst out: "That was the worst speech I ever listened to in my life. How any man could get up and deliver such remarks to an audience is more than I can understand. I wanted the earth to sink and let me go through." The brain disease to which Biographer Sandburg attributes most of Mary Lincoln's shrewishness finally became too much for her; in 1875 her family had her committed to a sanatorium in Batavia, Ill. Set free a year later, she wandered un happily abroad, came home, hid in her sister's house...
...central" theory supposes that cerebrospinal fluid periodically collects in the skull, causes pressure on the brain. A similar reaction might follow if the head arteries carried an extra amount of blood, or if the head veins emptied themselves too slowly...
...Migraine Feels. The brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight...
...Suffer. City dwellers more often than country dwellers; brain workers more often than muscle workers. Half the cases get their first attacks between the ages of 20 and 30. But migraine has been recognized in two-year-olds. In some people first attacks come...
...Riley believes that most cases of migraine can be traced to malfunctions of the ductless glands, notably the pituitary and the ovaries. The hormones (messengers) of those glands, he believes, give mischievous information to the nerves which control the contraction & expansion of the brain's arteries. Consequently those arteries go into periodic convulsions. The convulsions make the headache...