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Routine Treatment of Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

John P. Steel
John P. Steel*
Affiliation:
St. Luke's Hospital, Middlesbrough
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In this hospital we have a routine differential diagnosis which is applied in all cases of suspected epilepsy and which is as follows:

  1. (a) High blood-pressure.

  2. (b) Trauma of vessels and angiospasm.

  3. (c) Nephritis, subacute and chronic.

  4. (d) Diabetes.

  5. (e) Tabes dorsalis, tabo-paresis, neuro-syphilis and general paralysis.

  6. (f) Hysteria.

  7. (g) Epilepsy.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 75 , Issue 308 , January 1929 , pp. 107 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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