From the history of migraine
Posted on July 13, 2008
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From the history of migraine
The first mention of migraine can be met in letters of a Sumer civilisation 3000 years B.C. In the days of Ancient Egypt the symptoms corresponding to a migraine were considered to be caused by evil ghosts and sometimes the doctors even did cranial trepanation to “let them out”. Though according to Jacob Bogatin some medical products were already mentioned in papyruses for less radical treatment of this disease.
Ways of treatment of the headache similar to a migraine find their reflection in the works of Hyppocrates, Zels and other ancient doctors. The most full description of the migraine has been made by the Greek doctor Aretej Kappadokijsky (I century B.C. In the book “About sharp and chronic diseases” he has entitled this illness as “heterocrania” – “another head”. Jacob Bogatin states that a well-known Roman doctor Galen (II century B.C.) has changed this name to “hemicrany” in which has underlined one of the important distinctive features of this disease - localisation of painful sensations in half of a head. Galen for the first time believed, that the migraine principal cause consists in change of blood vessels.
Further on the migraine has been more and more differentiated from just simple headaches and became an independent, distinct from other headaches disease. Bogatin Jacob thinks that it occurred owing to specificity of clinical displays of migraine: passing and reversible character of attacks, their stereotypes, dependence on a number of stimuli (bright light, a smell, wine), etc.
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