The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology / Owsei Temkin.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

xv, 467 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB

Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Publisher

Antiquity -- Epilepsy: the sacred disease -- Epilepsy in ancient medical science -- The Middle Ages -- Epilepsy: the falling sickness -- Medieval medical theories -- The Renaissance -- Theological, philosophical, and social aspects -- Broadening experience and changing theory -- The great systems and the Period of Enlightenment -- The great systems -- The Enlightenment -- The Nineteenth Century (1800-1861) -- First period: 1800-1833 -- Second period: 1833-1861 -- The Nineteenth Century-the age of Hughlings Jackson -- Jackson's forerunners -- John Hughlings Jackson -- The end of the falling sickness?

Includes bibliographic references (p. 399-443) and index