An inquiry into the nature and causes of epilepsy : with the function of the spleen; and the use of the thyroid body ... / John Jackson.

  • Jackson, John, -1855.
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1842
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    advanced age. From the circumstance of children being so frequently attacked by this disease, it has been termed by the French, ‘ Mai des enfans.’ The following table, shewing the comparative frequency of epilepsy, at different ages, among the females at the Salpetriere, is extracted from Andral’s Lectures, published in the Lancet (No. 502). Cases. Ages from 1 to 5 5 . 10 12 10 . 15 11 15 . 20 10 20 25 4 25 . 30 4 30 35 1 35 , 40 2 40 45 1 45 50 2 50 55 0 55 60 1 66 Thirty-eight were previous to the commencement of the catamenia, and twenty-eight afterwards. Epilepsy has been divided, since the days of Hippocrates, into idiopathic, in which the cause of the disease is supposed to exist in the brain (pure, or cerebral epilepsy), and sympathetic, in which the cause is supposed to be an irritation in some other organ, or part, affecting the brain by sympathy. The following have been mentioned by authors as sympathetic epilepsies :—spinal, pulmonary, cardiac, hepatic, stomachic, nervous, or atonic, nervous from