Migraine
Foxhall, Katherine,
Migraine A History / Katherine Foxhall. - 1 online resource (p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : programmed in? -- The "beating of hammers" : classical and medieval approaches to hemicrania -- "Take housleeke, and garden wormes" : migraine medicine in the early modern household -- A "deadly tormenting megrym" : expanding markets and changing meanings -- "The pain was very much relieved and she slept" : gender and patienthood in the nineteenth-century -- "As sharp as if drawn with compasses" : Victorian vision, men of science and the making of modern migraine -- "A shower of phosphenes" : twentieth-century stories and the medical uses of history -- "Happy hunting ground" : conceptual fragmentation and medication in the -- Twentieth century -- "If I could harness pain" : the migraine art competitions, 1980-7.
Open Access
9781421429502 1421429500
Migraine Disorders--history
Electronic books.
RC392
616.8/4912
Migraine A History / Katherine Foxhall. - 1 online resource (p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : programmed in? -- The "beating of hammers" : classical and medieval approaches to hemicrania -- "Take housleeke, and garden wormes" : migraine medicine in the early modern household -- A "deadly tormenting megrym" : expanding markets and changing meanings -- "The pain was very much relieved and she slept" : gender and patienthood in the nineteenth-century -- "As sharp as if drawn with compasses" : Victorian vision, men of science and the making of modern migraine -- "A shower of phosphenes" : twentieth-century stories and the medical uses of history -- "Happy hunting ground" : conceptual fragmentation and medication in the -- Twentieth century -- "If I could harness pain" : the migraine art competitions, 1980-7.
Open Access
9781421429502 1421429500
Migraine Disorders--history
Electronic books.
RC392
616.8/4912