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

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    the result was happy. Many are disheartened, both practitioners and patients, by these changes of form in diseased manifestations : the only successful practitioner is he, who, while acknowledging to the full extent the wiles of the enemy with whom he has to contend, points out to the patient, and keeps before his own mind, all the good points in the case : and building his prospect of progress on these, and meeting the foe as he pre- sents himself, victory will, in most cases be his. Another conclusion to which I have arrived from an extensive experience in the treatment of epilepsy, is, that the spasm of epilepsy is not to be looked upon as in itself dangerous ; being rather a means adopted BY NATURE TO RELIEVE THE SYSTEM from the effect of temporarily augmented pressure of the cerebellum. Viewing the convulsions in this light strips them of their horrors. WORKS PUBLISHED BY DR. EPPS. « Life of Dr. John Walker. Sold by Whittaker and Co. Ave Maria Lane. Essay on Counteraction. Sold by Renshaw and Rush, Strand. The Student’s Assistant. Horie Phrenologies. Sold by Ebenezer Palmer, 18, Paternoster Row. Evidences of Christianity deduced from Phrenology. The Philosophy of English Grammar.