cephalalgia

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Abstemiousness cures vertigo, cephalalgia, tendency to apoplexy, dyspnoea, gout, old ulcers, impetigo, scrofula, herpes, and various other maladies Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, who was given up by all his physicians, regained health by living upon 12 ounces of bread and 15 ounces of water, and lived to a great age He consumed less than an ounce of flesh-formers in his diet.

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  1. noun Pain in the head; a headache.

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  • Abstemiousness cures vertigo, cephalalgia, tendency to apoplexy, dyspnoea, gout, old ulcers, impetigo, scrofula, herpes, and various other maladies Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, who was given up by all his physicians, regained health by living upon 12 ounces of bread and 15 ounces of water, and lived to a great age He consumed less than an ounce of flesh-formers in his diet. —  Five Years of Theosophy
  • "The nurse was shaving a man, who died in a few hours after his entrance; he inhaled his breath, which had a nauseous taste, and in an hour afterwards was taken with nausea, cephalalgia, and singing of the ears. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • I have never suffered from any illness in my life, save fleeting attacks of cephalalgia, the result of too prolonged a stimulation of the centres of cerebration. —  Round the Red Lamp
  • For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of the left eye. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • A half ounce has frequently caused death; smaller quantities have been followed by distressing symptoms, such as intoxication (which Olshausen has noticed to follow irrigation of the uterus), delirium, singultus, nausea, rigors, cephalalgia, tinnitus aurium, and anasarca. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
 

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  1. Latin, also cephalargia, from Greek κεφαλαλγία, later also κεφαλαργία, headache, from κεφαλαλγής, having headache, from κεφαλή, head, + ᾰλγος, pain, ache.
 

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