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Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain.

Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain. This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract There has never been a book on headache that came close to that of the late Harold Wolff. The second edition was published 10 years ago; it was and is a masterpiece of writing, an exhaustive yet engrossing delineation of Wolff's long study and understanding of headache. The new edition, revised by Dalessio, serves to bring certain aspects of headache up to date, most of them having to do with drug therapy. The emphasis on total therapy rather than simply drug therapy has been preserved, however. Dalessio has altered slightly the form of the book, although the "new chapters" on cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia are merely transplants from other sections of the original. Migraine, the main part of the book, has been reshaped, with some anecdotal portions removed, but little has been added. It is of interest that nothing in the section on observations of methysergide (UML-491 in Wolff's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain.

Archives of Internal Medicine , Volume 132 (5) – Nov 1, 1973

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9926
eISSN
1538-3679
DOI
10.1001/archinte.1973.03650110107032
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract There has never been a book on headache that came close to that of the late Harold Wolff. The second edition was published 10 years ago; it was and is a masterpiece of writing, an exhaustive yet engrossing delineation of Wolff's long study and understanding of headache. The new edition, revised by Dalessio, serves to bring certain aspects of headache up to date, most of them having to do with drug therapy. The emphasis on total therapy rather than simply drug therapy has been preserved, however. Dalessio has altered slightly the form of the book, although the "new chapters" on cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia are merely transplants from other sections of the original. Migraine, the main part of the book, has been reshaped, with some anecdotal portions removed, but little has been added. It is of interest that nothing in the section on observations of methysergide (UML-491 in Wolff's

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Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Nov 1, 1973

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