The Famous Case of Lady Anne Conway

secondary literature · 1937

type:secondary literature

year:1937

citation:Owen, Gilbert Roy. "The Famous Case of Lady Anne Conway." Annals of Medical History 9, no. 6 (November 1937): 567-571. PMID: 33943893.

LINK

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33943893/

SUMMARY

A medical-history journal case study of Anne, Viscountess Conway's chronic headache and the remedies attempted for it, including Valentine Greatrakes's 1666 stroking treatment at Ragley Castle; per its title and indexed record it treats her as a famous documented case. PMID 33943893 confirmed directly against the NCBI PubMed record (esummary): title, author 'Owen GR', journal 'Ann Med Hist', volume 9, issue 6, pages 567-571, publication date November 1937. Cited to corroborate that Greatrakes's attempt on Conway was a closely observed and documented case, and that it did not succeed.

NOTES

Confirmed via direct NCBI eutils esummary lookup for PMID 33943893, matching title, author, journal, volume/issue/pages, and date exactly against the citation above. PMCID PMC7942846 is also on record. This 1937 retrospective is used here only for the well-established outline fact that Greatrakes’s attempt on Conway’s headache is documented as unsuccessful; it is not used for any clinical diagnosis of Conway’s underlying condition.