As many as 30 million Americans have migraine headaches. The impact on patients and their families can be tremendous, and treatment of migraines can present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for family physicians. Abortive treatment options include nonspecific and migraine-specific therapy.
The first distinctive Greek pottery style first appeared around 1000 BCE or perhaps even earlier. Reminiscent in technique of the earlier Greek civilizations of Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean mainland, early Greek pottery decoration employed simple shapes, sparingly used.
Black-figure pottery, named after the black figures that decorated the vessels, were made in Athens from 620 BC to 480 BC. Typically, potters used a red background, which stood in contrast to the black figures, such as the image of Heracles found on this pot.