Chapter 94

E

PILEPSY

,

467

Definition and history,

467

Diagnosis,

493

from syncope,

495

from vertigo,

495

from uræmic convulsions,

495

in children,

494

in malingerers,

496

Etiology,

468

Age and sex, influence on causation,

470

Exanthemata, relation of, to,

473

Excentric irritating causes,

471

Exciting causes,

471

Gastric causes,

474

Peripheral origin,

474

Preputial irritation as a cause,

473

Reflex causes,

472

Sexual causes,

473

,

474

Syphilis, influence on causation,

470

Toxic causes,

472

Traumatic causes,

470

,

471

Morbid anatomy and pathology,

488

Alterations of cerebral tissue in,

493

Hughlings-Jackson's cortical theory,

489

,

490

Medullary theory of origin,

489

Theory of epileptic zones,

489

Prodromata,

475

Aural, characters of,

475

,

476

Cerebral disturbances,

475

Cutaneous disorders,

476

Hearing and vision, disorders of,

475

,

476

Motor disturbances,

476

Saliva, increase of,

476

Prognosis,

496

Age, influence on recovery,

498

Menstruation, marriage, and pregnancy, influence on recovery,

500

,

501

Symptoms,

477

Frequency of attacks,

482

of immediate and remote effects of paroxysms,

481

Physical,

481

Post-epileptic aphasia,

481

Psychical,

481

Tendency to mania in,

482

of irregular forms,

483

of light attacks, or petit mal,

477

of major attacks,

477-479

Convulsions, characters,

477-479

Cutaneous state, in,

480

Duration of attacks,

478

Eyes, state of, in,

480

Pulse and temperature in,

480

Tendon reflexes in,

481

Tongue-biting, significance,

481

Urine, state of,

480

of psychical or masked forms,

483-486

of sensory epilepsy,

486

Hallucinations in,

487

Synonyms,

467

Treatment,

499

Abortants, use,

502

Amyl nitrite, use,

502

Belladonna and ergot, use,

501

Blisters, use,

502

Bromide, use of,

499-501

Bromate of potassium, use,

501

Cod-liver oil and hypophosphites, use,

501

Diet in,

503

Digitalis, use,

500

Galvanism, use,

502

Iodide of potassium, use,

502

Nitro-glycerin, use,

500

,

502

of status epilepticus,

502

Strychnia, use,

500

Surgical measures,

502

Epilepsy, alcoholic,

624

influence on causation of migraine,

407

Epileptic attacks in cerebral syphilis,

1010

following hemiplegia,

955

Epileptic insanity,

149

Epileptiform facial neuralgia,

1233

Epistaxis in tumors of the brain,

1044

Ergot, use of, in acute myelitis,

822

in acute spinal meningitis,

721

in cerebral hyperæmia,

773

in epilepsy,

501

in migraine,

413

,

1232

in infantile spinal paralysis,

1155

in insanity,

136

in spinal hyperæmia,

805

meningeal hemorrhage,

756

Ergotin, use of, in spinal sclerosis,

901

Erotomania,

148

Eruptions in nervous diseases,

57

simulated, in hysteria,

234

Erysipelas as a cause of cerebral hyperæmia,

765

of thrombosis of cerebral veins and sinuses,

985

Erythema, local, in symmetrical gangrene,

1259

Erythromelalgia,

1253

Essential vertigo,

426

Ether, habitual addiction to,

667

use of, in chorea,

455

in neuralgia,

1229

in tetanus,

556

Etiology of abscess of the brain,

796

of acute simple meningitis,

716

of acute spinal meningitis,

749

of alcoholism,

575

of atrophy of the brain,

994

,

995

of Bell's palsy,

1203

of capillary embolism,

979

of catalepsy,

315

of cerebral anæmia,

776

of cerebral hyperæmia,

765

of cerebral meningeal hemorrhage,

711

of chorea,

440

of chronic hydrocephalus,

741

lead-poisoning,

679

of combined forms of sclerosis,

870

of congestion of the cerebral pia mater,

716

of spinal membranes,

746

of diseases of cervical sympathetic,

1263

of disseminated sclerosis,

883

of eclampsia,

464

of ecstasy,

341

of epilepsy,

468

of external pachymeningitis,

704

of family form of tabes dorsalis,

870


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