One clump on the head

[littlerene24]

Hello.

I am reading an English book in which the narrator is describing himself like a hypochondriac. At the end doctors and chemists refuse to give him pills and they give him clumps on the head.
Those clumps seems cure him but I don't understand what are clumps ?

[BobK]

I don't see why a clump on the head would cure him: a 'clump' is a blow or stroke - they hit him.

I think the point may be that what he needed was not more pills but 'a dose of reality'

b

[emsr2d2]

I can't find a dictionary definition showing "clump" as a noun meaning a blow or stroke or hit and I've never heard it used that way.

A thump on the head, yes.
A clout round the head, yes.

Littlerene24, what book were you reading? And can you give us the actual sentence/paragraph which includes the patient being given "clumps on the head"?