A history of non-drug treatment in headache, particularly migraine

Brain : a Journal of Neurology
Peter J Koehler, Christopher J Boes

Abstract

Although new invasive procedures for the treatment of migraine have evolved during the past decades, the application of invasive procedures for this indication is not new. In this review, the history of non-drug treatments for migraine is discussed. Historical texts by physicians known to have written on headache and migraine (hemicrania), well-known books by physicians from the main historical periods up to 1900 and mainstream 20th century neurology handbooks were analysed. A large number of treatments have been tried, based on contemporaneous pathophysiological models that were not only applied to headache, but to medicine in general. Invasive procedures have been used for the more severe types of headache. Many treatments were based on ancient humoral theories up to the early 19th century. A new kind of invasive procedure appeared on the physician's palette in the 19th and 20th century, following the development of new ideas that were based on solid pathophysiology, after the introduction of scientific method into medicine. After its introduction in the mid-18th century, medical electricity became even more popular for the treatment of migraine following the discovery of vasomotor nerves in the mid-19th century, but at the e...Continue Reading

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