When you've got a headache, what you want is relief. Today, there is any number of ways to get that relief thanks to modern medicine. But the question is, how modern is that medicine?

As it turns out, one of the most popular ways of getting that relief isn't all that modern. In fact, it's positively ancient. So let's follow along and see how we got from then to now, and what else from then might be relevant now. Because when it comes to pain, you definitely shouldn't ignore it.

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