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Introduction: Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, also known as "El Padre de la Patria", wrote accurate notes in his campaign diary and personal letters about a recurrent headache he used to suffer. By means of these notes a clinical history was deduced which included: location of pain, starting way, intensity, duration, frequency, other related symptoms and evolution through time during five years. Development: Céspedes suffered from nearly three episodes of a gradual starting headache each month, which developed in minutes to hours and lasted for a few hours to one day. The pain was variable in its intensity, sometimes unilateral, with nausea as accompany symptom and related to stress, sleeping problems, under nourishment and tobacco abstinence. Usually, it also induced the necessity of rest. Conclusion: It was certainly a chronic disease which appears to be common migraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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