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New Remedy For Headache

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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"An excellent and never failing cu:-e Cor nerrons headaohe," said an apostle of physical cnltnre, "is the simple act of walking baekward. Just try it some time if you have any doubt about it I have yet to meet the person wha flidn't acknowledge its efficacy after a trial. Nobody has as yet discovered or formulated a reason why such a procesa should bring such certain relief. Physicians say that it is probably because the reflex action of the body brings about a reflex action of, the brain, and thus drives away the pain that when induced by nervousness is the result of too much goinj, forward. Don't you know how at such times you have the f cel ing that everything in jour head is beir.g pushed forward? As soon as you begin to walk backward, however, there comes a feeling of everything being reversed, and this is followed by relief. The relief is always certain and generally speedy. Ten minutes is the longest I have ever found necessary. An entry or a long. narrow room makes the best place for such a promenade. You sbould walk very slowly, letting the ball of your feet toucli the floor first and thcn the heel; just the way, in fact, that one should, in theory, walk forward, bilt which, in practice, is so rarely done. Besides curing nervous headache there is uo better way to learn to walk well and gracefully forward than the practice of walking backward. A half hour of it once a day will do wonders töward iniprovins the

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