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==History== The first complete description of cluster headache was given by the London neurologist [[Wilfred Harris]] in 1926, who named the disease ''migrainous neuralgia''.<ref>Harris W.: Neuritis and Neuralgia. p. 307-12. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1926.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(59)90651-8 |title=The periodic migrainous neuralgia of Wilfred Harris |year=1959 |author=Bickerstaff E |journal=The Lancet |volume=273 |issue=7082 |pages=1069β71 |pmid=13655672 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1046/j.1468-2982.2002.00360.x |pmid=12100097 |title=Wilfred Harris' Early Description of Cluster Headache |journal=Cephalalgia |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=320β6 |year=2016 |last1=Boes |first1=CJ |last2=Capobianco |first2=DJ |last3=Matharu |first3=MS |last4=Goadsby |first4=PJ |s2cid=25747361 }}</ref> Descriptions of cluster headache date to 1745 and probably earlier.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1136/jnnp.2007.123091 |pmid=17940171 |pmc=2117620 |title=Gerardi van Swieten: Descriptions of episodic cluster headache |journal=Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry |volume=78 |issue=11 |pages=1248β9 |year=2007 |last1=Pearce |first1=J M S }}</ref> The condition was originally named Horton's cephalalgia after [[Bayard Taylor Horton]], a US neurologist who postulated the first theory as to their pathogenesis. His original paper describes the severity of the headaches as being able to take normal men and force them to attempt or die by suicide; his 1939 paper said:{{blockquote|"Our patients were disabled by the disorder and suffered from bouts of pain from two to twenty times a week. They had found no relief from the usual methods of treatment. Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief."<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Horton BT, MacLean AR, Craig WM |journal= Mayo Clinic Proceedings |year= 1939 |volume= 14 |page= 257 |title= A new syndrome of vascular headache: results of treatment with histamine: preliminary report}}</ref>}} CH has alternately been called erythroprosopalgia of Bing, ciliary neuralgia, [[erythromelalgia]] of the head, Horton's headache, histaminic cephalalgia, petrosal neuralgia, sphenopalatine neuralgia, vidian neuralgia, Sluder's neuralgia, Sluder's syndrome, and hemicrania angioparalyticia.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Goadsby PJ |title= Headache in Clinical Practice |edition= Second |publisher= Taylor & Francis |year= 2002 }}{{page needed|date=July 2017}}</ref>
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