On the relation of the 'aura' giddiness to epileptic seizures / by Charles E. Beevor.

  • Beevor, Charles, E. (Charles Edward), 1854-1908.
Date:
[1884?]
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Credit: On the relation of the 'aura' giddiness to epileptic seizures / by Charles E. Beevor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i ON THE BELATION OF THF “ AURA ” GIDDINESS TO EPXJbEP^ie SEIZURES. BY CHAELES E. BEEVOE, M.D. (LOND.), M.E.O.P. Aesistatit rhysician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. The feeling of giddiness occurring as a “ warning ” or aura before epileptic seizures has been long known, but as far as I have been able to ascertain I have failed to find, in the writings on the subject, an account of any association or relation between the character of the giddiness and the commencement of the ensuing seizure. I shall endeavour in this paper to show that there is some relation between the direction of the apparent movement of the patient and objects surrounding him and the initial rotation of his head at the commencement of the fit. I think it probable that this apparent movement and the initial rotation are usually in the same direction, or, in other words, that objects appear to move, and the patient feels himself to turn in the same direction as his eyes and head are actually drawn in the commencing tonic spasm. In Vol. III. of‘Beain,’ p. 192, Dr. Hughlings-Jackson has contributed a valuable paper “ On Right or Left-sided Spasm at the Onset of Epileptic Paroxysms,” and in speaking of vertigo in the sense of there being apparent displacement of objects to one side as occurring in those paroxysms in the first part of which the convulsion is right-sided. Dr. Hughlings-Jackson does not commit himself to any fixed conclusion on the matter. He writes; “ I dare not state it as a fact, but my impression is,” &c. He dwells on the difficulty of getting trustworthy information from the patient or his friends as to the side on which the initial spasm began or preponderated at the onset of epileptic paroxysms. He mentions various ways