Like writer’s cramp, spasmodic torticollis or wryneck is a condition which is widely considered to be uninfluenced by any form of treatment. In fact, the most recently advocated treatment involves a destructive operation on the brain. A seventeen-year-old schoolboy had this condition in quite advanced form so that his head was held twisted to one [...]

Constipation is one of the most common ailments of civilized man. It does not exist among primitive people. It is a result of sedentary life in combination with denatured, refined, and devitalized foods—conditions for which our body was not made. It is a common observation that many people afflicted with arthritis have a long record [...]

The aims of treatment of febrile convulsion are three-fold: • to stop the convulsion; • to treat any underlying infection (e.g. urinary tract infection, otitis media) which might have caused fever; • to prevent further febrile convulsions. Febrile convulsions in most children stop of their own accord, usually after 4-5 minutes. Short-lived febrile convulsions are [...]

Transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are disturbances of brain function, usually lasting from two minutes to two hours, but sometimes for as long as 24 hours, which leave no trace. During a TIA, the victim may be paralyzed, unable to talk, or experience tingling or other unusual feelings on one side of the face or in [...]

Signs and symptoms The symptoms of sinusitis include fever (sometimes as high as 40.6°C), pain, stuffy nose, and cough. Depending on the location of the infection, headache may occur in the back of the head (infection of a sphenoid sinus), at the temples and over the eyes (infection of the ethmoid and frontal sinuses), or [...]

Characteristics of the Grasses That Cause Allergy Grasses cause three times as many allergies as trees because they grow almost anywhere in the world (from the frozen North to the equator), even though they thrive best in moderate climates. There are many kinds of grasses, some of which, like sugar cane, wheat, rye, corn, bamboo, [...]

IVF is a technique for fertilising your eggs with your partner’s sperm outside your body – hence the use of the phrase ‘test tube babies’. The fertilised egg is then implanted back into your womb. Who Should Have It? IVF may be used as a last resort by couples who have had unexplained fertility for [...]

What is it? A feeling that after some time with the same partner things have become predictable and lost their spice and excitement. Most couples who have been married for more than ten years or so complain that sex is boring some, or even all, of the time. Sexual boredom is not inevitable, though, and [...]

Relief When a doctor finally puts a name to all that pain and suffering you feel relieved. At last someone has recognized that you do have something wrong with you and it is not all in your head. No, you are not neurotic and your symptoms have a name. Endometriosis. You do not have cancer [...]

Although many learned researchers talk about the ‘psychodynamics’ (i.e. the interplay between physiological and other factors) of accidents, especially accidents in the home, there is little doubt that most accidents are caused through carelessness and thoughtlessness. Over 2 million people are involved in accidents in their homes every year in the UK, a figure which [...]