hemicrania

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The doctor mentions several possible diagnoses: new daily persistent headache, migraine with aura, and hemicrania continua, a headache on one side of the head that never ends.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2016

The late Dr. Monro asserted in his lectures, that he cured the hemicrania, or megrim, by a strong vomit, and a brisk purge immediately after it.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

More commonly it is frontal or general; occasionally we found it occipital, and still more rarely it was unilateral, constituting hemicrania.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It is superior to anything else when inhaled in so-called angio-spastic hemicrania, giving rapid relief in the individual paroxysms and prolonging the intervals between the latter.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

In hemicrania I believe the stomach is always affected secondarily, as no quickness of pulse generally attends it, and as the stomach recovers its activity in about two whole days.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus