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"The pain was tearing, gnawing, boring, throbbing. The eye became so sensitive that it could not support the light, it became inflamed, spasmodically contracted and tearing, the temporal vessel [blood vessel in the temples] pulsated uncommonly strongly. In no position of the body did I find rest, and the pain became so insupportable that I rolled on the floor, afraid at any moment of getting convulsions. I had already resolved to open a vein in the afternoon when the noon bell tolled twelve o'clock and with this tolling sound there was momentaneous relief."

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By John Muller, a German doctor (written in the early 1800s)