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John Fothergill’s description of a headache he suffered in the winter of 1778 is thought to be the first anglophone account of a #migraine’s ocular disturbances.
He saw “a singular kind of glimmering in the sight; objects change their apparent position surrounded by luminous angles, like those of a fortification.
Giddiness comes on, headache, and sickness”.
Fothergill was detailing, wi…

Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating Scotomata
In a 1870 paper, Hubert Airy became the first to attempt to explicitly visualise the scintillating scotomata of his migraine.