h, and massage in feeble cases. Sun-baths and exercise
in the open air are of first importance. Ordinary neuralgia may
almost always be relieved by either moist or dry heat. In some
cases, cold applications give more relief than hot. As a rule,
abnormal heat requires cold, and unnatural cold requires hot
applications. In many cases it is necessary to give the patient
a warm bath of some kind. Electricity often succeeds when all
other remedies fail.

"For facial neuralgia apply hot fomentations, together with the
use of sitz baths, or hot foot baths. The head may be steamed by
holding it over hot water, adding pieces of hot brick
occasionally to keep water steaming, head being covered.

"There is no complaint, perhaps, in the treatment of which the
use of port wine will be more strongly urged by kind friends,
with the assurance that it is impossible to get well without it.
This is quite untrue, as thousands can testify."--DR. RIDGE.

"Avoid opiates of all sorts. 'It is better to bear the ills we
have than fly to others that we know not of.' The pangs of
neuralgia are as nothing to endure compared with the sufferings
of an opium wreck. Build up the general health, and the
neuralgia will disappear."

NAUSEA.--"A feeling of sickness is not uncommonly due to
indigestion. If it is caused by rich food take a pinch of
bicarbonate of soda in a little water, or a teaspoonful of fluid
magnesia. The acidity of the food will thus be neutralized, and
this course is far preferable to benumbing the stomach with
brandy. If indigestion is the cause, it is often salutary to
miss one or two meals, so as to allow the stomach to recover.

"When due to pregnancy, a little aerated water, or soda water is
useful; sometimes a small wafer or a crust, eaten before rising
in the morning, will check it. An early morning walk, if the
weather is pleasant, is helpful.

"The moist abdominal bandage is a very excellent means of
relieving nausea during pregnancy. It should be worn constantly
for a week or two, and then omitted during the night. Daily sitz
baths are also of great advantage. In many cases electricity
relieves this symptom very promptly. In very urgent cases in
which the vomiting cannot be repressed, and the life of the
patient is threatened, the stomach should be given entire rest,
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