ABSTRACT
Figure 1.3 Papyrus from Thebes, Egypt (2500 BC). Now in a British museum. It is totally illegible, and therefore instantly recognizable as a prescription
Figure 1.4 Cartoon, translating above papyrus:‘The physician shall take a crocodile made of clay, with sacred grain in its mouth, and an eye of faience. He shall bind it to the head of the patient with a strip of fine linen upon which is written the names of the Gods. And the physician shall pray’
Figure 1.5 Hippocrates described migraine circa 400 BC. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
Figure 1.6 ‘Vision of the Heavenly City’ from a manuscript of Hildegard’s Scivias written at Bingen (circa 1180 AD)
Figure 1.7 Thomas Willis, the father of neurology. The first to postulate that ‘megrim’ was due to blood ‘estuating’ (stagnating) in the dural vessels, distending them and producing head pain. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
Figure 1.8 Original publication of Thomas Willis’ work, The London Practice of Physick. He stated that migraine was caused by vasodilation
Figure 1.11 Illustration by John Tenniel from Alice in Wonderland.Was Lewis Carroll writing his migraine auras into his book?
