Medicine: Sick Headaches

The sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Despite the wide prevalence of the ailment, especially in neurotic families, its nature is not known. At least five major causes have been suggested. But those five are usually obscured because the victims, to get attention and coddling, often imagine or pretend other ailments. They fall into megrims, fancies, freaks; they have the blues, the dumps; they become hipped on their misery.

To study a sick...

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