[Ads-l] Antedating "ice cream headache"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing your fun discoveries, Steven.
The June 22, 1892 citation in The Patriot is also available via GenealogyBank.

Garson

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 4:15 PM Steven Losie <stevenlosie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ice cream headache (OED, 1937)
>
> [begin quote]
> [headline] THE ICE CREAM HEADACHE
> The Causes That Occasion It Scientifically Considered.
> [..]
> During the scorching weather of July and August you often rush into an ice
> cream saloon with the avowed intention of cooling your body to at least a
> few degrees below the melting point.
>
> If you are in a great hurry you are apt to make the first few spoonfuls of
> the cooling mixture rather large. This almost immediately gives you a
> violent pain in the temples, or somewhere in the region of the eyes. Why is
> this? Did you ever stop to think? asks a writer in the St. Louis _Republic_.
>
> One who has studied the physiology of the case says that it is caused in
> the following manner: The frozen mixture coming into contact with the
> nerves of the throat (the larynx, pharynx, etc.) temporarily paralyzes
> them. The sensation instantly shoots to the center of those nerves, which
> is in the brain.
> [end quote]
> Source: The Patriot (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), 22 June 1892, p.7, col.1
> Database: America's Historical Newspapers (Readex/NewsBank)
> Interestingly, The Patriot cites The Republic of St. Louis, MO, as their
> source, but several other digitized reprints - with slightly different
> wording - drop the line about The Republic in the article, and cite the New
> York Ledger instead. That version also leaves off the definite article in
> the headline (so it's just "ICE CREAM HEADACHE"). The earliest found
> digitized instance of the NY Ledger version comes from the _Clinton
> Republican_ (Wilmington, Ohio), 21 Jul 1892, p. 6, col.6, available at
> Newspapers.com.
> Which source was first? The New York Ledger is not digitized, but is
> available on microfilm at the New York Public Library. The Republic (St.
> Louis, Missouri), is not digitized, either, but the 1892 run of the
> newspaper is available on microfilm from either the Missouri Historical
> Society in St. Louis, or from the State Historical Society of Missouri in
> Columbia, MO.
>
> Another antedating:
>
> [begin quote]
> The caramel girl gets a candy "jag" on every night and gets up with a
> chocolate-ice-cream headache every day.
> [end quote]
> Source: The Sun (New York, NY), 14 Nov 1893, p. 7, col.3
> Database: Chronicling America
> Also reprinted in the Buffalo (NY) Courier, 16 Nov 1893, p.4, col.3, which
> can be found at Fulton History.
>
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