title: A probable cluster headache case from a textbook of 1726: Francisco Suarez de Rivera's description.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Few descriptions of cluster and cluster-like headache made before the 19th century have been reported.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a previously unreported early description of a probable cluster headache case made by Francisco Suárez de Rivera (1686-c.1751), one of the main physicians of the Spanish Age of Enlightenment, writer of almost 40 textbooks about medicine, surgery, pharmacology, and therapeutics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The depiction here reported of a woman with probable cluster headache is possibly one of the earliest known and, to our knowledge, the first in Hispanic literature. We also review other descriptions of cluster and cluster-like headache from the same time period.
authors.affiliation: University of Navarra, Spain. jpalmaca@unav.es
authors.forename: J-A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Palma
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Palma
mesh_terms: D003027:Cluster Headache / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*