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Therefore, for the irremediable sorrows of middle life and old age I recommend a strict chronic course of science and hard reasoning, counter-irritation. Bring the brain to act upon the heart! For the loss of fortune, the dose should be applied less directly to the understanding, I would administer something elegant and cordial.
The same treatment in the early stage is enjoined as in inflammatory pneumonia, which the reader will consult counter-irritation and purgatives. Bleeding never should be resorted to.
So in medicine, when inflammation takes place at some vital point of the system, counter-irritation is brought about at some other point, by means of blisters, scarifications and cupping. Another method consists in blistering your wife, or giving her, with a mental needle, a prod whose violence is such as to make a diversion in your favor.
If we had been born Hindoos, we should, at such times, exhibit our skittish tendencies, "shying" at the sun-eating monster with nervous apprehension, and should doubtless do our best, through horrid yells and tintinnabulations, towards getting up a tremendous counter-irritation upon the earth that should tell mightily on the nerves of this umbratilous tiger in the heavens.
This is the mill-round of the old medicine; from irritation to inflammation, from inflammation to mortification, and decease of the patient. Now, instead of irritating the irritated spot, suppose we try a little counter-irritation." "With all my heart." The doctor then wetted a towel with cold water, wrung it half dry, and applied it to Mr. Eden's stomach.
Opium, champagne, hypodermic injections of sulphuric ether, counter-irritation, etc., proved useless. The doctor was on the point of injecting dilute liquor ammonii into the veins, but, none being obtainable, it occurred to him to try nitrite of amyl as a last resort.
I am confident, however, that in a majority of instances the reverse is the case, the affection of the head being the cause of the disorder of the stomach. It is no proof to the contrary, that vomiting often relieves the headach, for vomiting is capable of relieving a great number of other diseases, as well as those of the brain, upon the principle of counter-irritation.
Even such severe treatment as counter-irritation proved of no avail. Gunson mentions a man of forty-four, a healthy farmer, who, after being very wet and not changing his clothes, contracted a severe cold and entered into a long and deep sleep lasting for twelve hours at a time, during which it was impossible to waken him.
"I had a notion that girls called Wilhelmina were sometimes Billie to their friends." "I never call her anything but Wilhelmina. But I really cannot talk about it. The recollection tortures me." "That's just what you want. It's the counter-irritation principle. Persevere and you'll soon forget that you're on board ship at all." "There's something in that," admitted Eustace reflectively.
He took no notice of her, but gave way to a violent storm of remorseful grief, a kind of mental process of counter-irritation, which relieved him. The Courtois' mill lies a league away from Marsac, the town of the district, and the half-way between Mansle and Angouleme; so it was not long before the good miller came back with the doctor and the cure.
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