HippocratesPersons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
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In his treatise on the brain, which was published in 1779, Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote that persons suffering from pain in the head were suffering from an affection of the brain. In other words, they had a mental illness.
Source: Aphorisms
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