Great allowance was to be made, he realized, for her humiliation over the flowers in her bonnet. That might justify her, fairly enough, in being kept away from meeting now and again by headaches, or undefined megrims.
- Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, ch. 11
I was curious about this one because it seems so close to migraine. Turns out that migraine was apparently a misreading of migrame, Middle English for a type of headache. Who'd have thought?
Also, a megrim is a species of left-eyed flatfish found in European seas between 100 and 700 meters below sea level. I wonder if they get headaches.
"'They were tumbled about, to be sure; yet most ... withstood the tumbling and the uneasy motion of the ship very well. I have often noticed that a prolonged and violent blow {storm} tends to dispel the megrims...'" --Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 157
Great allowance was to be made, he realized, for her humiliation over the flowers in her bonnet. That might justify her, fairly enough, in being kept away from meeting now and again by headaches, or undefined megrims.
- Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, ch. 11
I was curious about this one because it seems so close to migraine. Turns out that migraine was apparently a misreading of migrame, Middle English for a type of headache. Who'd have thought?
Also, a megrim is a species of left-eyed flatfish found in European seas between 100 and 700 meters below sea level. I wonder if they get headaches.
"'They were tumbled about, to be sure; yet most ... withstood the tumbling and the uneasy motion of the ship very well. I have often noticed that a prolonged and violent blow {storm} tends to dispel the megrims...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 157
'Lydgate was abrupt but not irritable, taking little notice of megrims in healthy people'
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
from Middlemarch