Headaches in antiquity and during the early scientific era

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 256, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1215-1220

  Magiorkinis, Emmanouil ^a,c   Diamantis, Aristidis ^a   Mitsikostas, Dimos Dimitrios ^b   Androutsos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ATHENS NAVAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All headaches; Cephalgia; History of neurology

Indexed keywords

CHAMOMILE;

ANTIQUITY; EVOLUTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; MEDLINE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER HEADACHE; HEADACHE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEUROLOGY;

EID: 68349124962     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5085-7     Document Type: Review

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