Headaches Through the Past of Medicine

Dubravko Habek; Roko Habek

doi:10.5937/acthist44-61347

Dubravko Habek medicinski fakultet Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište u Zagrebu
Roko Habek Emergency Division of Primorsko-Goranska County, Croatia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/acthist44-61347

Keywords: headache, migraine, history of medicine, ethiopathogenesis, therapy

Abstract

The understanding of the etiopathogenesis of headache through the evolution of medicine has closely followed the civilizational and social development of the human species – from primitive prehistoric medicine to two medical scientific philosophies, humoral and cellular, which changed countless medical concepts, causes, diagnostic principles and therapeutic bases. The treatment of headaches throughout the history of medicine was based on common principles respecting the symptomatology of the ruling medical philosophies, initially based on the empiricism of folk medicine, including herbal preparations and craniotomy, and then on alchemy and the scientific development of pharmacy.

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