The extent to which the separation ofepileptics and idiots, but more particularly of the former, from other classes of mentally disordered persons should be carried, is a matter much discussed.
The rule is to have epileptic wards in large asylums, although there are some epileptics in whom violence and dementia are such prominent features, as to justify their position severally with the refractory or with the demented.
Some epileptics are normal in appearance, but many show signs of degeneration.
The diet at homes for epileptics is usually vegetarian, and gives excellent results.
The motor cells of epileptics are restrained, with some difficulty, by these cells in normal times.
This is shown by the fact that very few epileptics have an epileptic parent.
Most epileptics are poor, because their infirmity debars them from continuous or well-paid work, leaving them dependent on relatives, often in poor circumstances also.
Epileptics should wear low, stiff collars, half a size too large, with clip ties.
After a number of attacks of petit mal, grand mal usually supervenes, and mostepileptics suffer from attacks of both types.
Epileptics are morbidly sensitive, and reference to their malady must be avoided.
When epileptics do become insane the insanity is generally one of the forms of mania.
Many epileptics suffer from the disease for a lifetime and never exhibit symptoms of insanity.
In America the colony scheme has been successfully adopted by the state of New York at the Craig Colony forEpileptics at Sonyea and elsewhere.
Horbury was a statement that while he had seen no symptoms in the prisoner to suggest that he was an epileptic, epileptics did not, as a rule, show symptoms of the disease between the attack.
I believe there are cases on record of epileptics having committed the most violent outrages against those nearest and dearest to them.
Yes, epileptics are extremely dangerous in that condition, and will commit murder if they are in possession of a weapon.
The criminal classes contain a considerable portion of epileptics and other persons of instable, emotional temperament, subject to nervous explosions that burst out at intervals and relieve the system.
That incarceration of epileptics in prison and their conviction as criminals is unjust and cruel.
The ancients did allow their epileptics to live in the tombs, but we allow them no place but prison, unless their friends have money!
We know that there are some epileptics among them, and that their dread complaint has caused them to commit acts of violence.
But let me end the subject by stating that the non-provision for epileptics is a national disgrace and a national danger.
I do not wonder that the ancients thought that epileptics suffered from demoniacal possessions; perhaps they do, perhaps we believe so still.
Reynolds, there are four times as many epileptics who have their attacks more frequently than once a month as there are of those whose attacks recur at longer intervals.
Such baths are, however, not to be used on epileptics or on children suffering from rickets, weak circulation or general debility.
It has been calculated that the number of epileptics in the state of New Jersey, where the most careful investigation of the problem has been made, will double every 30 years under present conditions.
The hereditary nature of most types of epilepsy is generally held to be established,[81] and restrictive measures should be used to prevent the increase of the number of epileptics in the country.
Voisin in the case of a sham epileptic in Paris, ``whose sphygmographic lines have no resemblance to those of true epileptics before and after a fit, and only resemble those produced by normal persons after a violent gesticulation.
One of the Bonhoeffer epileptics had been released during his reservist practice as unfit for military service, and had only been put into the line at his own urgent request at the outbreak of the war.
In passing I may note how many instances in the medicolegal part of the war literature there are of =epileptics who come up for courtmartial= or for medical examination pending courtmartial.
The In-patient and Out-patient records of the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic were searched for epileptics already discharged from the army, but notes of but two patients attending this hospital for epilepsy were found.
Many epileptics found their way into the armies either through the carelessness of examiners or by suppression of the facts on the part of those who desired to serve.
The authorities have been somewhat surprised by the number of epileptics that have gotten by the draft boards.
Re psychasthenics, Lépine notes that the lack of any out-standing symptoms in many psychasthenics allows them to stay in the army longer than would epileptics or hysterics of the same degree of disease.
He has also observed that those regions of Italy which produce mostepileptics produce also most criminals.
An imaginary home for epileptics was one of the favorite plans.
This money for imaginary epileptics came so easily that the Gorman woman confessed that it was almost a shame to take it.
Their work of nursing epileptics was supposed to produce this austere silence.
One of the epileptics in a jealous rage shot the woman whom he loved, and when he found that escape was impossible, killed himself.
Medical Superintendent and Executive Officer, the New Jersey State Village forEpileptics at Skillman, U.
Director of the New Jersey State Village for Epilepticsat Skillman, U.
Before the mother and three of the epileptic children were brought to the State Village for Epileptics the family lived in a cellar, slept on rags, and depended on the neighbours for food.
The normal parents of epileptics are not normal but simplex, and have descended from tainted ancestors.
The common types of epileptics lack some element necessary for complete mental development.
Epileptics who have just passed through violent convulsions, will frequently attack bystanders with great fury.
All epileptics should be carefully watched; they may become dangerous to society at any moment.
According to Morel, madmen, criminals, epileptics and idiots form the sad series in this extinction of man.
Epileptics used to suck the blood from the wounds of dying gladiators.
Indeed Aristotle has left it on record in his Problems that whenever in the case of epileptics the disease begins on the right side, their cure is very difficult.
For the sight of its rotations weakens his already feeble mind, and the potter is far more effective than the magician for casting epileptics into convulsions.
She was wearing her school apron, and upon her head was the little osier cap which epileptics are made to wear, to avoid the danger of falls upon the head.
Are epileptics to be admitted into the special class?
Probably the same state of affairs will recur in the classes for the abnormal--at any rate until the time when provision for epileptics is more extensive than it is at present.
Many other names of epileptics distinguished for achievement might well have been added to the list.
Greater accomplishments than these epileptics made in their various departments are not to be found in the history of the race.
Matthew Woods discussed what certain famous epileptics had accomplished in spite of epilepsy.
After years of quiet country living epileptics who had two or three attacks a week have scarcely more than one a month, if, indeed, that often, and their general condition is greatly improved.
I believe a large percentage of idiots and imbecileepileptics owe their pitiable plight to vampires which, in their infancy, they had the misfortune to attract.
These sufferings, it is maintained, are greatly modified by the bromides, as under their influence epileptics may perform their daily work, when without them they are comparatively useless.
Many epileptics are attacked at regular intervals, sometimes on the same day or even hour; while others are afflicted at any time, day or night.
However, we know that ten per cent of epileptics develop mental diseases, no particular psychosis but a loss of mental and moral sense.
The number of epileptics in whom the disease may be traced to hereditary causes is estimated to be about 33 per cent.
In third generation there are two epileptics and one imbecile--scarcely likely to marry.
If a ten per centum reduction is to be considered as solving the problem in the case of epileptics what will the 86 per cent.
In addition to the 214 children who were retarded and exceptionally retarded, three epileptics and two constitutionally inferior children were found among the school children of the county.
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