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Author Foxhall, Katherine, author.

Title Migraine : a thousand-year history / Katherine Foxhall.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Migraine -- History.
Migraine.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Foxhall, Katherine. Migraine. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 9781421429489 (DLC) 2018039557 (OCoLC)1049777850
ISBN 9781421429496 (electronic book)
1421429497 (electronic book)
9781421429489 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1421429489 (paperback ; alkaline paper)