Next to pain, headache is probably the most common symptom to affect man­kind. There is hardly a grown person who at one time or another has not experienced mild or severe headaches, for which most people take aspirin or a similar compound because it is often effective and does not require a doctor’s prescription.

People of especially tense and nervous temperament may experience frequent or daily bouts of severe headache that is usually localized in the front or top part of the head. Those with rheumatism of the vertebrae and muscles of the neck will complain of headache in the back part of the head. This is actually not a true headache and may often be relieved by massage of the neck muscles and aspirin.

Nervous people are continually harassed by real and anticipated problems and fears of dire things to come, so that through over excitability the brain becomes overworked and filled with an excess of blood, which leads to headache. Such high-strung individuals may experience headaches for many years and be none the worse for it, and at times they obtain temporary relief from one or another medication. Some severe attacks may not respond to any medication. Any severe and persistent headach should obtain careful study, since head­aches may also be caused by allergy. sinuses, colds, eyestrain, head injury. meningitis, a brain abscess, or briar. tumor. Severe headache can produce nausea and vomiting and impair the efficiency of work and daily activities.

Migraine is a special variety of intense headache that sets in with suddenness on one side of the head, lasts a day or two .La disappears just as suddenly as it came only to recur every few weeks are months with strange regularity. In women, it seems to come with the men.al periods and disappears entirely sudden they reach the menopause. The sudden migraine attack may be accompanied by vomiting and temporary disturbances of vision. Many remedies are employed for migraine, including steroid compounds and ergot and caffeine preprations which may ameliorate some of the attacks when taken as a doctor directs, but they do not have any curative effect on the underlying condition.