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Butterfield, who sits opposite him at the tea-table, is something of a hypocrite, and asks him all sorts of puzzling questions. The fact is, it is vinegar-cruet against sugar-bowl in perpetual controversy. I do not blame Givemfits as much as many do. His digestion is poor. The chills and fever enlarged his spleen. He has frequent attacks of neuralgia. Once a week he has the sick headache.
It was in Oxford that De Quincey began the use of opium; to relieve the pains of neuralgia, and the habit increased until he was an almost hopeless slave to the drug. Only his extraordinary will power enabled him to break away from the habit, after some thirty years of misery.
"One of our company has been on an excursion among the celestial bodies of our system, I understand," said the Professor. Number Five colored. "Nothing but a dream," she said. "The truth is, I had taken ether in the evening for a touch of neuralgia, and it set my imagination at work in a way quite unusual with me.
As, however, I had no pain in the right arm, the sense of the existence of that limb gradually disappeared, as did that of my legs also. Everything was done for my neuralgia which the doctors could think of; and at length, at my suggestion, I was removed, as I have said, from the Stump Hospital to the United States Army Hospital for Injuries and Diseases of the Nervous System.
For the concussion headache is no child's play, and ten hours in a doolie might breed neuralgia in a cannon-ball. "Pretty average. Nothing to trouble about." The assurance was not convincing: and she gleaned the truth from two deep lines in his forehead.
She talked about her own complaints and those of her CONFIDANTE for the time being, to every lady in the room successively, from our hostess down to Miss Wirt, taking them into corners, and whispering about bronchitis, hepatitis, St. Vitus, neuralgia, cephalalgia, and so forth.
Such lesser troubles are colds, headache, catarrh, dyspepsia, nervousness, neuralgia, sore throat, skin eruptions, rheumatism, toothache, earache, affections of the eyes, lameness, sprains, bruises, cuts, and burns. Civilization has brought us great blessings but it has also brought with it many dangers to health.
Now take a poet like Cowper. He had a mental neuralgia, a great deal worse in many respects than tic douloureux confined to the face. It was well that he was sheltered and relieved, by the cares of kind friends, especially those good women, from as many of the burdens of life as they could lift off from him. I am fair to the poets, don't you agree that I am?
On the whole, she seemed very well pleased with her examination, for she smiled and showed a row of small teeth which were as white as milk. "I am sorry now," said she, "that I did not send for a black hat; my hair is so light that gray makes me look ugly. Do you not think so? Why do you not reply, Clemence? One can not get a word out of you to-day; is it because you have your neuralgia?"
"Charlie bought a new clock last week that's a marvel. You ought to see it." "No," she answered. "I am afraid, Miss Dearborn," he continued, as they found their places, "that you did not have a very good time Sunday afternoon." He referred to the Easter festival at his mission school. Laura had left rather early, alleging neuralgia and a dinner engagement. "Why, yes I did," she replied.
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