Headache Through the Centuries

by Eadie, Mervyn J.

• ISBN13: 9780199860975
• ISBN10: 0199860971
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Headache: Through the Centuriesilluminates the history of headaches with a particular interest in how the disorder has been understood and treated since the earliest recorded accounts, dating from around 4000 BC. Different types of headache were being recognized as early as the 2nd century AD. Over the years, though, the classification of types of headache has changed so that headache patterns described in the past are often difficult to relate to present-day types of headache. Since that time, a great deal of material on the topic has become available, the full gamut of manifestations of the disorder has been described, and considerable insight into its mechanisms has been obtained, though no completely satisfactory explanation of the disorder has yet become available. Providing an extensive history and the development of our understanding of headache over the course of six millennia,Headache: Through the Centuriesis thought-provoking and relevant reading for neurologists, medical historians, and anyone interested in headaches.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Headache and Its Classification	p. 3
The "Seat" of Headache	p. 19
Headache before 1800	p. 35
Migraine: Clinical Phenomena	p. 73
Migraine: Pathophysiology	p. 111
The Treatment of Migraine	p. 157
The Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias	p. 197
Tension-Type Headache	p. 227
Cranial Neuralgias	p. 243
Some Thoughts from the History of Headache	p. 265
References	p. 271
Index	p. 295
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