Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment

"When shall I begin to train my child?" said a young mother to an old doctor. "How old is the child, madam?" "Two years, sir!" "Then, madam, you have lost just two years," answe...

"Between two beings so complex and so diverse as man and woman, the whole of life is not too long for them to know one another well, and to learn to love one another worthily."-...

To-day, the need to eat forces even sensible men to live--and die--at a feverish rate. In bygone days the world was a peaceful place, in which our forefathers were denied the ch...

To sum up: we have learnt that Epilepsy is a very ancient disease due to some instability of the brain, in which convulsions are a common but not invariable symptom.

If it be true that: "One half the world does not know how the other half lives", how true also is it that one half the world does not know, and does not care, what the other hal...

"All men are not equal, either at birth or by training. Nature gives each of us the neural clay, with its properties of pliability and of receiving impressions; nurture moulds a...

It was formerly thought that for each disease, a specific drug could be found, but this idea is exploded. The doctor determines the exact condition of his patient, considers how...

Hysteria, recorded in legend and law, in manuscript and marble, in folk-lore and chronicle, right from history's dawn, is still a puzzle of personality, and only equalled by syp...

"Our life, fortune, and happiness depend on our knowing something of the rules of a game far more complicated than chess, which has been played since Creation; every man, woman...

"Oft, too, some wretch before our startled sight, Struck as with lightning with some keen disease, Drops sudden: By the dread attack o'erpowered He foams, he groans, he trembles...

"Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, Lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; En...

Grand mal 1150 Grand and petit mal 589 Petit mal 179 Jacksonian 37 Mental 16 Grand mal and Jacksonian 10 Grand mal, petit mal and Jacksonian 8 Grand mal and mental 3 Grand mal,...

If men but realized what complicated machines they were, they would use themselves better. In the body are 240 bones and hundreds of muscles. The heart, no bigger than the clenc...

"Man is composed of characters derived from pre-existing germ-cells, over which he has no control. Be they good, bad, or indifferent, these factors are his from his ancestry; th...

The brain consists of cells of _grey matter_, grouped together to form centres for thought, action or sensation, and _white matter_, consisting of nerve strands, which act as li...

"To purge the veins Of melancholy, and clear the heart Of those black fumes that make it smart; And clear the brain of misty fogs Which dull our senses, our souls clog." --Burton.

Rings of muscle cause wormlike movements of the bowels, and so propel forward food and waste. Weakening of these muscles or their nerve controls from any cause, results in a "co...

"We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends, we may live without books, But civilized man can...

The man who pores over a book to discover the exact number of calories (heat units) of carbohydrates, proteins and fats his body needs, means well, but is wasting time.

So distressing a malady as epilepsy early attracted attention, and every treatment superstition could devise, or science could suggest, has been tried. Culpepper in his "Herbal"...

Some men need only a few hours' sleep, but no one ever overslept himself in natural slumber. There are anecdotes of great men taking little sleep, but their power usually consis...

Although most people would assume that epileptics are unable to follow a trade, there is hardly an occupation from medicine to mining, from agriculture to acting, that does not...

"We know how dismal the world looks during a fit of indigestion, and what a host of evils disappear as the abused stomach regains its tone. Indigestion has lead to the loss of b...

"The surest way to health, say what they will Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ailments we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow." --Churchill.

"All sick people want to get well, but rarely in the best way. A 'jolly good fellow' said: 'Strike at the root of the disease, Doctor!' And smash went the whisky bottle under th...

Some patients are obsessed by a peculiar sensation (the "aura") just before a fit. This warning takes many forms, the two most common being a "sinking" or feeling of distress in...

"First-aid is the assistance which can be given in case of emergency by those who, with certain easily acquired knowledge are in a position, not only to relieve the sufferer, bu...