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Some Remarks on the Treatment of Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Isaac Atkin
Isaac Atkin*
Affiliation:
Hants County Mental Hospital, Knowle, Fareham
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The fact that seizures indistinguishable from those of “idiopathic” epilepsy occur in a considerable number of nervous and other physical disorders has compelled us to regard this discharge of psycho-physical energy as a symptom only, and the treatment should therefore vary from case to case in accordance with the particular pathological causation. The majority of cases that one has to treat in a mental hospital are of the idiopathic type, and the treatment is often unfortunately of a uniform empirical nature. Within recent years, however, there has been a tendency to develop some definite conception of the perverted physiology of the disease and to exhibit treatment accordingly.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 75 , Issue 308 , January 1929 , pp. 101 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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