Headache

• Provides a systematic account of the development of knowledge of the treatment of different types of headache over the centuries, and the underlying rationales.
• Pays especial attention to the development of the understanding of headache mechanisms, rather than simply recounting the accumulation of knowledge of headache phenomenology.
• Discusses headache and its history in greater depth and length than any other book on the subject

Readership: Neurologists, medical historians, psychologists, and anyone else interested in headaches.

Mervyn J. Eadie, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neuropharmacology , Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland, Australia

Mervyn J. Eadie Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neuropharmacology Honorary Research Consultant University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia

"This is a welcome addition to the study of neurology. The book is solid, thoughtful, readable, and well researched. Neurologists and students of neurology will appreciate the historical underpinnings of this important subject." - Elizabeth Connor, The Citadel

Introduction
Chapter 1 Headache its classification
Chapter 2 The "seat" of headache
Chapter 3 Headache before 1800
Chapter 4 Migraine: clinical phenomena
Chapter 5 Migraine: pathophysiology
Chapter 6 The treatment of migrane
Chapter 7 The trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias
Chapter 8 Tension-type headache
Chapter 9 Cranial neuralgias
Chapter 10 Some thoughts from the history of headache
References
Index