On epilepsy and epileptiform seizures : Their causes, pathology and treatment. / By Edward Henry Sieveking.

  • Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.
Date:
MDCCCLVIII. [1858]
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Credit: On epilepsy and epileptiform seizures : Their causes, pathology and treatment. / By Edward Henry Sieveking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CHAPTER Y. The ca*uses and complications of epilepsy — The demoniac contro- versy— The predisposing and exciting causes — Prevalence of epilepsy in England and Erance — Influence of race — Epilepsy, endemic and epidemic — Influence of sex; of age — Hereditary influence — State of individual organs — The kidneys—Albuminuria — Saccharine urine — Eruptive fevers — Thoracic and abdominal organs — The sexual functions — Excesses — Continence — Marriage . . . . pp. 71-115 CHAPTER VI. The exciting causes of epilepsy — Physical—Mental—Statis- tics of Erench writers — The author’s observations — Sleep and sleep-walking — Difficulties of rigid classification — Re- marks on the relation of predisposing and exciting causes — Cases pp. 116-129 CHAPTER YH. The pathological anatomy of epilepsy — The value of morbid anatomy in reference to the disease — Appearances seen in the brain — Dr. Boyd’s observations on the weight of the brain — J. Wenzel’s observations on the pituitary body and pineal gland — Results obtained by other observers — Appearances in the spinal cord — Esquirol’s observations — Lesions not connected with the nervous centres pp. 130-158 CHAPTER VIII. The theory of epilepsy — Consideration of the views of authors regarding centric and eccentric forms of the disease — Authors’ views on the subject — The brain the part primarily involved — Relation of the organs of circulation to the brain in epilepsy — Sir Astley Cooper’s experiments The influence of habit — The relation of infantile fits to epilepsy— The experiments of Brown-S6quard—The cerebral circulation in epilepsy pp. 159-191