HATPIN HEADACHES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 37.

HATPIN HEADACHES.

SEVERAL peculiar cases of headache among women patients of a young West Philadelphia doctor have been discovered by him to be due to hatpins. "I was baffled for a long time," he says, "by a patient who was an inveterate trolley rider, and I attributed the malady to the strong wind to which she subjected herself during such rides. She persisted in the riding, however, so I set my wits to work, and when she told me that once when her hat had blown off, and she had to tie it on, she had stopped the

headache, I suggested that next time she should take her hat off, and hold it in her lap. This she did, and missed the headache again. I tried the same remedy on other patients with the same result. It's clear that the pins which hold on a large hat in a high wind tug at the roots of the hair until a headache is started. I find, too, upon comparing notes, that I am not the original discoverer of this kind of headache."—Philadelphia Record.