Epilepsy, a case of twenty years' standing cured, with the treatment and remarks thereon / [John Epps].

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869
Date:
1834
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    A CASE OF EPILEPSY OF TWENTY YEARS STANDING. When a person suddenly falls, is insensible, is vio- lently convulsed, foaming at the mouth, and not reco- vering his sensibility till after the convulsions have ceased, he is said to have an Epileptic fit, and the disease is called Epilepsy. Epilepsy, like every other disease, is very much in- fluenced in its manifestations by circumstances. Hence writers have named different varieties of Epilepsy. Three may be noticed as comprising almost every va- riety in manifestation : these are, 'partial epilepsy, im- perfect epilepsy, and modified epilepsy. Epilepsy is said to be partial when the convulsions, instead of affecting the whole of the body, affects the muscles of a particular part of the body only. Imperfect epi- lepsy is when some one of the phenomena generally attendant upon an epileptic seizure is wanting; thus, in some cases, the convulsions are not apparent in vio-