Jacksonian Epilepsy
Jacksonian Epilepsy
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杰克逊癫痫
DOI:
10.1136/pgmj.11.114.150
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发表时间:
1935
影响因子:
5.1
通讯作者:
G. Jefferson
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作者:
G. Jefferson
In the year I827 there appeared a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. It was written by L-F. Bravais of Annonay in the Department of Ardeche and was entitled " Researches on the symptoms and treatment of Hemiplegic Epilepsy"; it was based on the observations of the author on certain epileptic subjects in the Hopital Bicktre. This thesis proved to be, for those days, a close clinical study and record of a series of cases in which the convulsions were localized to one side of the body or even to one limb. Localized epilepsy was no new observation for it had been mentioned by Hippocrates, whilst Galen had found that the tying of a ligature round a limb served to prevent an epileptic attack provided that that limb was the site of origin of a seizure. These were early but isolated observations, and the immense literature of epilepsy gathering volume throughout the ages has little or no message for us because it was concerned with bare clinical records and with empirical methods of treatment.