The role of the carotid arteries in the causation of vascular lesions of the brain, with remarks on certain special features of the symptomatology.

"In 1914, J. Ramsay Hunt, in an article considered to be another historical landmark in the recognition of the causes of cerebral ischemia, emphasized that strokes could be caused by extracranial occlusion of the cerebral arteries. He described the syndrome of internal carotid occlusion....In the paper he stated that the neck arteries should be checked for 'a possible diminution or absence of pulsation'" (Fields &  Lemak, A history of stroke , New York, 1989, 23-24).