During the Roman Empire, the physician Scribonius Largus described in his work, Compositiones, the use of an electric fish to alleviate a headache. To remedy what we might refer to today as a migraine, Largus placed a live torpedo fish delivering a strong direct electric current over the scalp of his patient, to elicit a sudden, transient stupor with pain relief.
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