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Jorge E. Mendizabal, MD

Arch Neurol. 1999;56:1413-1416.

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Although not fully recognized until recently, accounts of cluster headache have appeared in medical textbooks since the 17th century. Robert Bing and Bayard Horton will likely have their names affixed to the term for posterity, but the original description of this dramatic disorder probably dates back to Nicolaas Tulp in 1641. This article reviews some of the original citations and historical roots of cluster headache in the medical literature.

EARLY CLINICAL DESCRIPTIONS

Ancient Greek and Roman medical textbooks make various references to headache disorders but offer no evidence of the existence of cluster headache (CH).¹ Reports of the rather unique clinical features of CH do not appear in the medical literature until the 17th century.² Latin-proficient medical historians with expertise in headaches such as Koehler³ and Isler^4-5 have meticulously extracted the earliest descriptions of CH in European textbooks. Tulp published Observationes Medicae in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1641.³ Born . . . [Full Text of this Article]

A PERIODIC TYPE OF HEADACHE

DEVELOPMENT OF PATHOGENESIS

TREATMENT
From the Headache Center, Department of Neurology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile.

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