A CURE FOR HEADACHE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

A CURE FOR HEADACHE.

THE Medical Record tells us the following, which certainly would do no harm to try: "An apostle of physical culture says that an excellent and never-failing cure for nervous headache is the simple act of walking backward. Ten minutes is as long as is usually necessary to promenade. It sometimes, however, requires more than ten minutes to walk at all, if one is very 'nervous.' But it is not understood that it is necessary to walk a chalk line. Any kind of walking will do, provided it is backward. It is well to get in a long, narrow room, where the windows are high, and walk very slowly, placing first the ball of the foot on the floor, and then the heel. Besides curing the headache, this exercise promotes a graceful carriage. A half hour's walk backward every day will do wonders toward producing a graceful gait."