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.
After the pot is made then the potter paints it with a very pure black slip made from a specially prepared clay using brushes made from a single hair. Previously it was believed that Greek pottery, unlike today's pottery, was only fired once, but that firing had three stages.