Hippocrates and the Origins of Neuro-Psychiatry

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"Phoenix' problem: He seemed to see flashes like lightning in his eye, usually the right. And when he had suffered that a short time a terrible pain developed towards his right temple, then in the whole head, and then into part of the neck where the head is attached to the vertebra behind, and there was stretching and hardness around the teeth...Vomits, whenever they occurred, averted the pains I have described, and made them more gentle. Phlebotomy helped..."
(Epid.5.83)