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Concept

Convulsions

Images

  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by B. Picart.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • A naked woman sitting in a chair having convulsions. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Non-epileptic seizures in our experience : accounts of healthcare professionals / [edited by] Markus Reuber, Gregg H. Rawlings, and Steven C. Schachter.

    | Date: [2020]
    • Film

    First Aid.

    | Date: 198?
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    A dissertation concerning misletoe : a most wonderful specifick remedy for the cure of convulsive distempers : calculated for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich, and heartily recommended for the common good of mankind : to which is added, a second part, containing farther remarks and observations. / By Sir John Colbatch.

    Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729. | Date: 1720
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    Contribution l'ude des convulsions et paralysies lis aux mingo-enchalites fronto-pariales / par Louis Landouzy.

    Landouzy, L., professeur (Louis Thphile Joseph), 1845-1917. | Date: 1876
    • Film

    It makes you look a fool.

    | Date: 1980
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