If sufficient thyroid is fed in excess, brain conduction may be so facilitated that epilepsy may result upon slight irritation.
As mentioned, in such cases epilepsy appears as the twin brother of migraine in genius.
The point to be settled is whether epileptic genius, that is epilepsy with superior ability, occurs most often in pituitocentrics, the epilepsy being symptomatic of a pituitary struggling against barriers, tugging against bonds.
Reasoning back, cases of epilepsy and migraine began to be examined for evidences of involvement of the pituitary in their troubles.
Epilepsy and migraine certainly occur in people of no supernormal gifts, and often in degenerates and subnormals.
For the most part it talks nonsense; it is like an access of chronic sickness, and rather an epilepsy diffused than a force employed; we fancy that we are witnessing the descent of supreme evil into the infinite.
The whole audience fell into an indescribable epilepsy of hilarity, through which could be distinguished the sonorous and magisterial ha!
In mania or epilepsywe lose control even of those highest-level supraliminal centres on which our rational earth-life depends.
Cases of epilepsy (not inherited) have been successfully treated with the liquid extract of Tansy in doses of a drop with water four times in the day.
Persons in Sweden afflicted withepilepsy carry with them a knife having a handle of oak mistletoe, which plant they call Thunder-besom, connecting it with lightning and fire.
Goat's Rue, Galega, is likewise of service inepilepsy and convulsions.
Sir John Colebatch published in 1720 a pamphlet, on The Treatment of Epilepsy by Mistletoe, regarding it, and with much justice, as a specific.
Hoffman knew a case of chronic epilepsy recovered by a use of the flowers in infusion drunk as tea.
In Cornwall the flowering tops have been employed for the cure of epilepsy throughout several generations with singular success; though the use of the leaves only for this purpose has caused disappointment.
It is the Blitzmehl, or lightning-meal of the Germans, who give it in doses of from fifteen to twenty grains for the cure of epilepsy in children.
The flowers have been commended for the cure of epilepsyand nervous disorders; they are laxative when eaten in a salad.
Portions of old dead roots are found at the base of the herb, which go by the name of "coals," and are thought to be preventive of epilepsy when taken internally, or worn around the neck as an amulet.
In this way the spasms of epilepsyand of other convulsive distempers, are allayed.
Both Mugwort and Wormwood have been highly esteemed for overcoming epilepsy in persons of a feeble constitution, and of a sensitive nervous temperament, especially in young females.
Piperno, a Neapolitan physician, in 1625, commended Rue as a specific against epilepsy and vertigo.
Mr. Gregor (1793) and by his descendants this remedy was given for inveterate epilepsy with much benefit.
Mayern cured some patients who were deplorably ill with [293] epilepsy when all other remedies had failed.
That epilepsy has a bad effect on morals, and that epileptics are often untruthful, treacherous, and dangerous is as well known as that epilepsy is a form of degeneracy, and is often caused by improper feeding and neglect in childhood.
The sacrifice, for example, of the cock and other animals for recovery fromepilepsy and convulsions, is by no means extinct in some Highland districts.
The cock is still occasionally sacrificed in the Highlands for the cure of epilepsyand convulsions.
Epilepsy and epileptiform convulsions occur in a few cases; it is very possible that the epilepsy may be a result of the uraemic poisoning induced by diseased kidneys.
Thus Dioscorides speaks of delirium produced by lead, Aretaeus of epilepsy, and Paul of AEgina refers to it as a factor of epilepsy and convulsions.
The animal remained exposed to the vapour for three-quarters of an hour, when the epilepsy showed itself as before, and, indeed, almost regularly after feeding.
Appearance of epilepsy in animals born of parents having been rendered epileptic by an injury to the spinal cord.
Appearance of epilepsy also in animals born of parents having been rendered epileptic by the section of the sciatic nerve.
Not even epilepsy itself requires more decidedly that bromide, to be useful, shall be given in large doses.
The patient relinquished his habit, and both the pain and the epilepsy ceased, and, for some twelve months during which I had him under observation, had not recurred at all.
The genealogical connection between migraine and epilepsy is, as I have already stated, apparently very close.
The epilepsy remained probably unchanged but all the superadded emotions were annihilated and she felt an entirely new courage which allowed her to control herself between her regular attacks.
It leads from epilepsy to the periodic diseases, especially the maniacal depressive insanity, the paranoia which develops late, and finally to states of idiocy which cover the whole life.
Only in incipient cases, especially of melancholia and mania, the psychotherapeutic work seems not entirely hopeless; and for epilepsy some distinct successes cannot be denied.
We may find psychotherapeutic schemes by which epilepsy or maniacal depressive insanity or traumatic neuroses may become accessible.
How much this may enter as a partial factor into many of the cases of epilepsy which are classed in the order of "reflex" may well challenge our consideration.
McMahon, of Huntington, Indiana, has reported three cases of epilepsy in children caused by congenital phimosis that were entirely relieved by an operation without any subsequent return of the difficulty.
Women smitten with hystero-epilepsy see phantoms beside them in broad daylight and mate with them in a cataleptic state, and every night couch with visions that must be exactly like the fluid creatures of incubacy.
Epilepsy is either the result of pressure on the brain or some obscure cerebral disease; medicine can never cure it.
Apasmara is a peculiar kind of epilepsy in which the victim always thinks that he is pursued by some monster who is before his eyes.
When epilepsy is accompanied by some delusion of the sensorium, it comes to be called by Hindu physicians as Apasmara.
When epilepsy is due to the destruction of the sciatic nerve, the foot of the affected side loses the two outer toes, so that the animal has only one toe, the inner.
The unconsciousness and coma of epilepsy more resemble shock than they do cerebral anaemia or syncope.
He furthermore points out, as did Aristotle, that epilepsy produced in the ancestor by traumatism and other physical causes may be inherited by the child.
True epilepsy presents an enormous number of sub-groups, exhibiting every variety of deviation from the ideal convulsive form, and the existence of these forms tends to demonstrate the views just expressed.
The sexo-religious and other mental states of epilepsy often closely mimic normal mentation and serve to disguise the intense depth of degeneracy which epilepsy implies.
Closely akin to these states are expressions of degeneracy manifesting themselves with some approach to regularity in periods, as in epilepsy and the periodical insanities.
The supernatural influences which, in current belief, underlay epilepsy were, at the outset, malign or benign as they were offended or placated.
This is, therefore, a practical proof of the influence of climate, and it is re-enforced by the fact that delirium and epilepsyin insane asylums are also more frequent in hot than in cold months.
Nocturnal epilepsy for past three years; about one spell a month.
It was then I became suspicious, and later felt convinced that it was hysteria and not epilepsy with which I had to deal.
Several cases of the cure of epilepsy with OEnanthe in alternation with Silicea or some other drug have been reported, but as the question, "which cured?
Accepting the theory that epilepsy is a disturbance or irritation in the cortex of the brain, it would seem that OEnanthe crocata, which produces congestion of the pia mater, would prove a close pathological simillimum to epilepsy.
Purdon, of the University of Dublin, relates a case of epilepsy cured with this drug in 1 to 6 drop doses several times a day.
It has in some cases ofepilepsy suspended the fits, and greatly alleviated the symptoms.
Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.
A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
The early symptoms of epilepsyin childhood are also the more likely to be misinterpreted from the circumstance that they are frequently accompanied by a moral perversion much more striking than any loss of mental power.
In childhood, such attacks are at least as common preludes to confirmed epilepsy as in the adult, and are the more deserving of attention from their very liability to be overlooked.
I believe in the great majority of cases of epilepsy in childhood Dr.
In the child, as in the adult, epilepsyblunts the intellect as well as weakens the moral powers; and does both more speedily and more effectually in proportion as the child is younger, and its mind and will are less developed.
One medical authority whose experience enables him to speak with a peculiar degree of authority has pointed out that with epilepsy there is often an exaltation of the religious sentiments.
How little removed such behaviour is from that of the savage watching with awe the actions of one suffering from epilepsy or insanity, readers of the foregoing pages will be in a position to judge.
And it is also true that while some patients after emerging from a fit of epilepsy are in a dazed or confused condition, others have a very clear recollection of all they have seen and heard.
And of all nervous disordersepilepsy seems most favourable for producing this.
It must also be borne in mind that the consequences of vivid hallucinations experienced duringepilepsy do not always disappear with the attack to which they were originally due.
This, however, may be no more than an environmental accident, quite as much so as was the case when epilepsy was explained in terms of possession.
Of all nervous diseases that of epilepsy appears to have been most favourable to the encouragement of a belief in spiritual agency.
Advancing to a higher culture stage than that indicated in the last passage, there is much evidence that Mohammed was subject to hallucinations, and many authorities have indicated epilepsy as their source.
Of course, no one would claim that Mohammed's success was due to epilepsy, or even that the very severe forms of epilepsy were favourable to inducing a conviction of revelation.
It is certain that from the earliest times cases of what are undoubtedly epilepsy have been taken as positive indications of supernatural influence.
But we are now realising that the sons of “hysterical” women are apt to suffer from neurasthenia, or even from epilepsy or insanity; so there is hope that their sufferings may at last receive adequate attention and consideration.
Self-abuse may perhaps play some part inepilepsy commencing or recurring after the age of ten.
If we consider only cases of true idiopathic epilepsy female patients are probably in excess, but in epilepsy in adults, from all causes, males predominate.
The fact that convulsions occur in diabetes and alcoholism, suggested that epilepsy was due to poisons circulating in the blood, and thus irritating the brain.
Nearly all victims of severe, confirmed epilepsy (25 per cent of all epileptics) die in status epilepticus.
The Primary Cause of epilepsyis an inherent instability of the nervous system.
Epilepsy of all kinds is characterized by an alteration (not necessarily a loss) of consciousness, followed by loss of memory for events that occurred during the time that alteration of consciousness lasted.
Irritation of the cortex, especially the motor area, causes convulsions, and experiment has shown that epilepsy may be due to a disease or instability of certain inhibitory cells of the cortex.
In days gone by, epilepsy more rarely commenced after the age of twenty, but in these days of nerve stress it commences more frequently than formerly in people of mature age.
In the fifth stanza we see Byron, eight years later, at Missolonghi, struck down by that attack of epilepsy which preceded his death by only two months: V.
