An inquiry into the efficacy of digitalis in the treatment of idiopathic epilepsy / by Edmond Sharkey.

Date:
1841
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Credit: An inquiry into the efficacy of digitalis in the treatment of idiopathic epilepsy / by Edmond Sharkey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I also cured his brother six years ago, who like- wise has been since exempt. Case 8. He gives another case of a young girl in whom menstruation had never taken place. But I have reason to think that in that instance a cure was not effected. She had also used turpentine without benefit. In the Lancet, Feb. 4th, 1831, he relates three other cases. Case 9. One of these was a case of epileptic insanity. At the time when he was desired to take the digi- talis, he was attacked by a maniacal paroxysm of great violence requiring the use of handcuffs. At the time of taking the dose his pulse was 140. He refused to drink any gruel after it; and, whether from this cause or not, he did not vomit from the 20th till the 22nd, and then only by the assistance of a hippo emetic. His pulse had now fallen to 56. He was removed to a lunatic asylum ; and it is stated, that he recovered his reason, was free from fits, and his intellects seemed quite re- stored to their former clearness. after; and that he also had an acquaintance who was subject to them, who was treated by my father with digitalis, and recovered.”