Migraine Treatment is Quite Stimulating

The NYT reports on a shocking new treatment for migraine headaches:

Two different kinds of stimulatory devices are now inlarge-scale clinical trials for possible use in patients with the mostsevere migraine cases. Many researchers believe that such devices arelikely to play a greater role in migraine treatment in the future.

That's all well and good, but the best part of the story is a bit of historical background about how Roman doctors used scary-looking electric fish to treat people with headaches.