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1569996 
Journal Article 
Review 
Nitroglycerin Headache and Nitroglycerin-Induced Primary Headaches From 1846 and Onwards: A Historical Overview and an Update 
Tfelt-Hansen, PC; Tfelt-Hansen, J 
2009 
Yes 
Headache
ISSN: 0017-8748
EISSN: 1526-4610 
49 
3 
445-456 
English 
19267787 
WOS:000264564200016 
Nitroglycerin (NTG) (glyceryl trinitrate) was synthesized by the Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero in Paris in 1846. A very unstable explosive, Alfred Nobel while working on explosives, combined it with Kiselguhr and patented it as dynamite in 1867. NTG was introduced in 1879 in medicine in the treatment of angina pectoris by the English doctor William Murrell. NTG-induced headache was quickly recognized as an important adverse event both in the industrial use of NTG, where it was used to produce dynamite, as well as in the use of NTG as drug. This review traces the evolution of our understanding of NTG headache. 
nitroglycerin; nitroglycerin headache; history; tolerance; migraine