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Treatment of Idiopathic Epilepsy by Induced Malaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. C. Ramsay
J. C. Ramsay*
Affiliation:
Claybury Mental Hospital
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The use of malaria as a therapeutic agent in epilepsy was suggested by the known beneficial effects of other specific infections in this disorder. The earliest observation was probably that of Plato, who found that lepers were free from convulsions. A “tendency to respite which is sometimes temporarily induced in the course of the confirmed disease” (by febrile infections) is noted by Aldren Turner (1). Hamilton (2) found that of 11 cases who contracted typhoid 9 showed distinct temporary improvement, and 1 of these was free from seizures for four years. Maisonneuve and Gerard (3) reported cases of epilepsy whose seizures ceased altogether during 2 attacks of intermittent fever.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 75 , Issue 309 , April 1929 , pp. 257 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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