Excerpt from Hemicrania and Its Relations to Epilepsy and HysteriaCase 8. Miss Z mother has migraine, father irascible, several brothers and sisters have died of convulsions.Menstruated at 14. Commotio cerebri at 18. Hemi crania began three months later. Attacks about every eight days.Begin with scotoma before both eyes. These disappear in about twenty minutes. Then a feeling of numbness in the right upper extremity extending upward from the fingers. After about ten minutes the paraesthesia of the right upper extremity lessens, but now passes to the lower lip, tongue, so that the patient's speaking is affected. Headache now for the first, which is localized on the whole left side of the head. Nausea accompanies the whole attack. Vomiting rare.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.