Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headaches at New York Hospital, explained their mechanical causes. No matter how a sufferer may feel, the ache is never in the brain itself. Brain tissue, a grey and white mass of nerve cells and fibers, can be punctured, crushed or even burned without causing the slightest sensation of pain. But the veins and arteries which feed the brain and scalp, the membranes that cover the brain, some of the nerves of the head and neck are excruciatingly sensitive (see cut). Most headaches, said Dr. Wolff, come from the dilatation of these blood vessels or from some growth or injury...
...natural proteins turn into a substance called histamine. Some researchers believe that histamine dilates the tender arteries of the tough membrane (dura mater) that lines the skull, and a splitting hangover headache is the result. High fevers and various kinds of infections also distend these arteries and cause pain...
...have discovered a silver lining -an infallible technique I'd like to pass along: I leave the volume turned down so that I can't hear a word-only the tone of the voices. Then if the voice is one filled with violence and hatred, passion and pain, fear and death, the show is going on. When the tone changes to one filled with lush romance, gentle coaxing and Charles Boyer's eyes-then it's the announcer. . . . But when the voice comes out cool and calm and matter-of-fact, with nothing...
...caused by many conditions, ranging from nervous excitement to allergy for certain foods, such as eggs or chocolate. The headaches may come on every day or once a year; Dr. Palmer himself suffered three attacks every week for many years. Characteristic symptom of migraine is violent, pulsating pain on one side of the head, caused by irritation of nerves of the blood vessels in the head. If a doctor examines the interior of his patient's eye with an ophthalmoscope during an attack, he can occasionally see a spasm of the tiny blood vessels of the retina. Bright lights...
About five years ago, Dr. Palmer read about some British scientists who discovered that pigeons deprived of vitamin B I developed the symptoms of violent headaches, suffered severe pain on exposure to strong light, loud noise. The pigeon disease seemed so similar to human migraine that Dr. Palmer had a hunch his own headaches were caused by lack of B 1 . The vitamin deficiency, he believed, upset body metabolism, produced a poisoning of body tissues. Migraine, Dr. Palmer concluded, is only a symptom of this toxemia...