1671 FEHR, Johannes Michael (1610 – 1688); SCHMIDT, Elias
Naturae genius, medicorum Celsus, Jason Argonautarum, Bauschius occubuit.
First authentic case of trigeminal neuralgia. It concerned J. L. Bausch, who died from the condition in 1665. The account is to be found in the unpaged part of the volume, starting at sig. d 3 and occupying the two fo…
GMN 4512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8900
1672 WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675)
De anima brutorum
Chap. XIV is devoted to the sense of hearing; in it Willis described the “paracusis of Willis” (p. 73). English translation, 1683. A probable description of myasthenia gravis is given in Pars. 2, Cap. IX. In Pars 2, C…
GMN 1544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3644
1752 KNOLL, Johann Christian Friedrich (1726 – 1757)
Sendschreiben von den Wirkungen des Kafeetranks.
Discussing the consumption and reception of coffee from Britain to Turkey, Knoll dismissed criticisms of coffee, including that it reduced beauty and virility, or that it was contrary to Islam, instead promoting the m…
GMN 11719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13920
1764 COTUGNO, Domenico [COTUNNIUS] (1736 – 1822)
De ischiade nervosa commentarius.
Cotugno published a classic description of sciatica, which is useful even today. He recognized two types – arthritic and nervous; the latter has been called “Cotugno’s disease”, and his book is confined to that type. …
GMN 1382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8632
1776 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
Of a painful affection of the face.
Original description of facial neuralgia. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 5, 100-06.
GMN 4516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/363
1777 –1784 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
Remarks on that complaint commonly known under the name of the sick head-ach.
First accurate description of migraine.
GMN 4517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8904
1781 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780); ELLIOT, John (1747 – 1787)
A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works of John Fothergill. With an account of his life; and occasional notes, by John Elliot.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13800
1787 PUJOL, Alexis (1739 – 1804)
Essai sur la maladie de la face, nommée le tic douloureux; avec quelques réflexions sur la raptus caninus de Caelius Aurelianus.
The first monograph exclusively on trigeminal neuralgia, which Pujol called “tic douloureux”, or painful tic, as it had originally been designated by Caelius Aurelianus. Pujol provided a valuable description of the sy…
GMN 14359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16689
1821 CHURCHILL, James Morss (1796 – 1863)
A treatise on acupuncturation, being a description of a surgical operation originally peculiar to the Japonese and Chinese, and by them denominated zin-king, now introduced into European practice, with directions for its performance, and cases illustrating its success.
The first English monograph on acupuncture. Churchill had most success with rheumatic conditions, sciatica, back-pain, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. The German translation of Churchill…
GMN 6374.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8321
1826 BACHE, Franklin (1792 – 1864)
Cases illustrative of the remedial effects of acupuncturation.
The first original study of acupuncture published in North America, and one of the earliest American publications on the alleviation of pain. Franklin Bache, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was the first American…
GMN 6828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8992
1843 FRORIEP, Robert Friedrich (1804 – 1861)
Die rheumatische Schweile. Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie und Therapie des Rheumatismus.
Froriep described what would later be known as fibromyalgia, describing it as "rheumatism with painful, hard places" that could be felt in many locations on the body. He characterized the condition as muskelschwiele (…
GMN 12749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14995
1849 DAY, George Edward (1815 – 1872)
A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis.
Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
GMN 13167 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15427
1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934
1858 CARNOCHAN, John Murray (1817 – 1887)
Exsection of the trunk of the second branch of the fifth pair of nerves, beyond the ganglion of Meckel, for severe neuralgia of the face; with three cases.
First excision of the superior maxillary nerve for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5612
1871 –1872 PANCOAST, Joseph (1805 – 1882)
New operation for the relief of persistent facial neuralgia.
Pancoast devised the operative procedure of sectioning the second and third branches of the fifth pair of nerves as they emerge from the base of the brain. Reported by F. Woodbury.
GMN 4855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5618
1873 LIVEING, Edward (1832 – 1919)
On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders.
Liveing’s classic account of migraine showed the close association of this condition with tetany, asthma, and false angina pectoris, with epilepsy, and the alternation of all these conditions in the same subject or th…
GMN 2587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/409
1874 MITCHELL, Silas Weir (1829 – 1914)
Headaches, from heat-stroke, from fevers, after meningitis, from overuse of brain, from eyestrain.
Mitchell drew attention to the importance of eyestrain as a cause of headache.
GMN 4551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/411
1879 THOMSON, William (1833 – 1907)
On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.
Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this condit…
GMN 5917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6819
1881 FORST, J. J.
Contribution à l’étude clinique de la sciatique.
“Lasègue’s sign” in sciatica. Although discovered by E. C. Lasègue, it was first reported by his pupil Forst.
GMN 4563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8916
1884 MÖBIUS, Paul Julius (1853 – 1907)
Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.
“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.
GMN 4567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/435
1884 MEARS, James Ewing (1838 – 1919)
Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.
Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5626
1890 ROSE, William (1847 – 1910)
Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.
Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.
GMN 4863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5657
1891 HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857 – 1916); ET AL
Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).
Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.
GMN 4865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5667
1892 HARTLEY, Frank (1856 – 1913)
Intracranial neurectomy of the second and third divisions of the fifth nerve.
Hartley originated the operation of intracranial neurectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5705
1892 KRAUSE, Fedor (1856 – 1937)
Resection des Trigeminus innerhalb der Schädelhöhle.
Hartley–Krause operation for relief of trigeminal neuralgia (see also No. 4870).
GMN 4871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5710
1900 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.
GMN 4875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5722
1901 SPILLER, William Gibson (1863 – 1940); FRAZIER, Charles Harrison (1870 – 1936)
The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.
Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.
GMN 4876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5732
1903 ABADIE, Joseph Louis Irenée Jean (1873 – 1934)
Névralgie faciale; présentation de malade.
Alcohol injection of the Gasserian ganglion for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. See also pp. 91-96 of the same volume. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 4877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5736
1907 GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
The border-land of epilepsy. Faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms, and their treatment.
GMN 4821 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1628
1911 TROTTER, Wilfred Batten Lewis (1872 – 1939)
On certain clinically obscure malignant tumours of the naso-pharyngeal wall.
“Trotter’s syndrome”; deafness, palatal paralysis, and facial neuralgia, usually due to a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
GMN 3319.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4542
1911 GOLDTHWAIT, Joel Ernest (1866 – 1961)
The lumbo-sacral articulation. An explanation of many cases of “lumbago”, “sciatica” and paraplegia.
Goldthwait suggested that lumbago and sciatica might be due to intervertebral disc injury.
GMN 4383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5898
1911 TEACHER, John Hammond (1869 – 1930); MIDDLETON, George Stevenson (1854 – 1928)
Injury of the spinal cord due to rupture of an intervertebral disc during muscular effort.
Report of a case of “sciatica” due to rupture of an intervertebral disc.
GMN 4384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5908
1912 FLATAU, Edward (1869 – 1932)
Die Migräne.
Flatau presented the full clinical picture of migraine and described the disease as an innate disposition to pathological metabolic processes in the nervous system. He described its distinguished characters - ocular, …
GMN 12888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15135
1918 PEET, Max Minor (1885 – 1949)
Tic douloureux and its treatment, with a review of the cases operated upon at the University Hospital in 1917.
Trigeminal nerve resection with conservation of the motor root, for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
GMN 4889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5848
1925 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.
Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.
GMN 4896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5904
1932 BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936); DUEL, Arthur Baldwin (1870 – 1936)
The operative treatment of facial palsy by the introduction of nerve grafts into the Fallopian canal and by other intratemporal methods.
A classic paper which includes some history of the surgical treatment of facial palsy.
GMN 4899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5927
1934 MIXTER, William Jason (1880 – 1958); BARR, Joseph Seaton (1901 – 1963)
Rupture of the intervertebral disc with involvement of the spinal canal.
Demonstration of the causal role of intervertebral disc herniation in sciatica.
GMN 4435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6294
1959 STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966); RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
GMN 14358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16688
1970 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.
Revised edition, 1990.
GMN 9122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11301
2012 EADIE, Mervyn John (1932 – )
Headache: Through the centuries.
The most comprehensive history to date.
GMN 6842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9006
