Men are sick, women are hysterical

…Wolff’s discussions of women and migraine were intriguingly limited, especially given that by then most physicians had agreed that women experienced migraines more often than men. Much like his Victorian predecessors, Wolff preferred to talk about headache disorders in the masculine. Likewise, his descriptions of migraine emphasized masculine anxieties about the rigors of work life.

Joanna Kempner in Not Tonight

The “father of headache medicine” basically ignored ¾ of patients.