Hubert Airy

Hubert Airy (June 14, 1838 – June 1, 1903) was an English physician[1] who was the pioneer in the study of a migraine.

[2] He was the son of Sir George Airy, Astronomer Royal.

[3] Airy was one of the first to describe the common visual aura, which is the second stage in an outbreak of a migraine attack and precede a headache, and also coined the term scintillating scotoma for it.

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Illustration from 1870, by Hubert Airy, is one of the first pictures of a migraine aura.