Migraine: A History Foxhall Katherine
Migraine: A History Foxhall Katherine For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Touching on…
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Migraine: A History Foxhall Katherine
For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Touching on classical theories of humoral disturbance and medieval bloodletting, Foxhall also describes early modern herbal remedies, the emergence of neurology, and evolving practices of therapeutic experimentation. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told.In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migraine since the Middle Ages.
This history, she demonstrates, continues to profoundly shape our Throughout the book, Foxhall persuasively argues that our current knowledge of migraine's neurobiology is founded on a centuries-long social, cultural, and medical history.