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