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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    often prevail, which do not attract much attention or cause serious apprehension until a climax is reached which taxes the entire vigour of the system or proves heyond the control of nature or of art. Thus, during the prevalence of cholera, the noxious influence of the poison is manifested very generally throughout the population by the almost universal occurrence of diarrhoea, which is amenable to simple hygienic and medicinal treatment, and is undoubtedly due to the same poison which induces the more fatal form to which the name of cholera is applied.* It has been shown that, while the curability of algide cholera by art is altogether a matter of doubt, there is no doubt that we may prevent or anticipate it by arresting the mild form which it puts on in the premonitory diar- rhoea. We shall see that something similar occurs in epilepsy; and that our knowledge of the disease will be warped and very imperfect, so long as we have regard only to the fit that embraces all the charac- teristics to be found in scientific definitions, and over- look those minor symptoms which occur during the free intervals but do not amount to the sad dignity of a paroxysm. It will, however, be convenient to commence the observations I have to make upon the disease by a delineation of the epileptic fit or * Sec Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the Cholera Epidemic of 1S54, p. 10. L nter- suchungen und Beobachtungcn iiber die Verbreitungs-art der Cholera, &c. Yon Dr. Max Pettenkofcr. Mimchen, 1S55.