MIGRAINE

To the Editor:  The article on migraine by Marcussen and Wolff, The Journal, January 22, page 198, demonstrates the reluctance of the medical profession to adopt new methods of approach, even for a disease in which our therapy has been notoriously inadequate. No reference is made to allergic management of migraine, the efficacy of which has been thoroughly established for many years.Most clinicians who have availed themselves of this method agree that complete cessation of symptoms from elimination procedures as well as from desensitization treatment is a common occurrence. In my own experience, I rarely fail to obtain conclusive skin reactions from intradermal skin testing in true migraine. Many patients with seasonal migraine respond to hyposensitization therapy with pollen and fungous extracts as promptly as do hay fever patients. Such medications as intravenously administered aminophylline, as well as antihistaminics administered orally or intravenously, compare favorably with ergotamine tartrate in