Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1926
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Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Such is a typical and violent attack, as experienced during the life-period of sexual activity ; let us say, between sixteen and fifty. During the life- period that we may call pre-sexual -—from early childhood to adolescence —the attacks are usually, by observers, recognised as bilious attacks—some¬ times indeed, as fits of temper. In the third period of life—that of sexual wane—the attacks are less “ organised ” and vomiting is infrequent. In more than one respect the attacks then remind us of the Cheshire cat’s grin, which remained when the cat itself had faded away. To diagnose migraine should not be difficult ; that is to say, as to diagnose is commonly understood now-a-days. But the achievement of the nominal diagnosis is only a step in the direction of the complete and Hippocratic diagnosis. Two cautions are, however, necessary. Not a few migrainous children have been “ explored ” as the subjects of an “ acute ” or “ chronic ” abdomen; many more have been [69]
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