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A Historical Review of Headaches: Who First Described Them and When did This Occur?
Author(s) -
Souza Wallyson Pablo de Oliveira,
SousaSantos Patrick Mesquita,
SilvaNéto Raimundo Pereira
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/head.13906
Subject(s) - headaches , primary headache , medicine , pediatrics , history , surgery
Background Headache is as old as human history and has been able to report, and the first descriptions were found in Greece and Mesopotamia. Objective Our objective was to know the date of the first description of ICHD‐3 headaches, with their respective author. Methods We searched for articles that addressed the historical aspects of primary and secondary headaches and painful cranial neuropathies. Results Twenty‐seven different headaches were analyzed according to the occurrence of their first description, with the respective author and country of origin. Conclusions The knowledge of the first description of ICHD‐3 headaches, with their respective author, showed us how and when the different headaches appeared over the years.