An Address on SOME ALARMING SEIZURES
1934; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 3811 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.1.3811.89
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Epilepsy research and treatment
ResumoIn the course of medical practice we are confronted from time to time by peculiar seizures or nerve storms, which lack conformity with the more familiar descriptions. Some of these seizures cause great alarm to their victims, in that they seem to threaten paralysis, speechlessness, unconsciousness, or even death itself, or because they occasion profound states of instability and prostration. The appearance and sufferings of the patients during these attacks may further alarm relatives or onlookers, and even the medical man, unless he be familiar with the true nature of the seizures or fully alive to the history of the case, may be taken unawares, and feel so dubious about their purport and outcome as to be unable to give a reassuring prognosis. And yet the seizures which I have in mind are all consistent with long life and with good health at other times. Those with the more local effects may simulate or suggest organic disease of the brain ; those causing serious instability may also be wrongly attributed to cerebral vascular disease or cerebral tumour ; those which cause
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