Epilepsy : its symptoms, treatment, and relation to other chronic convulsive diseases / by J. Russell Reynolds.

  • Reynolds J. Russell (John Russell), Sir, 1828-1896.
Date:
1861
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    INDEX. 1'^ Abortive epilepsy, description of, 46r Absolute fi-equency of attacks, 149. Accidental causes of epilepsy, 131. Actual cautery, vise of, 95. After-symj)toms of attack, 114. Age, as causative condition of epi- lepsy, 125. at commencement of epilepsy, its influence on form of attack, 142. at whicb emotion operates most powerfidly, 133. at wbich epilepsy begins, aJBFected by hereditary taint, 129. effect on jirognosis, 314. its influence on frequency of seizure, 159. its influence on mental state, 164. Albumen, absence of, in urine, 114. AlcohoUsm, cause of convulsion, 20. chTonic, diagnosis of, 295. Alimentary organs of epileptics, 235. Anaemia, cause of convulsion, 20. of the brain, effects of, 244. Aniemic convulsions, diagnosis of, 296. Anaphrodisia of epileptics, 236. Anatomy, in relation to pathology, of epUei)sy, 239. Apo])lexy, as complication of ejjilepsy, 225. Apprehen.<flon, frequency of impair- ment, 45. Arrest of attack, by elongating mus- cles, 97. Asjihyxia, effects of, in attack, 273. AsBafcirtida, use of, 322. Atropine, use of, 320. Attacks, classification of, 82. number of, in relation to mental faihire, 181. pro<lromata of, 86. relative frequency of different forms, 138. Bymiittuwi of, 103. treatment of, 345. Aura, induced by central lesions, 265. motor; case of, 96. painful; case of, 98. pathology of, 277. rarity of, 91. relation to pathology of epilepsy, 266. sensory; case of, 92, treatment of, 346. Authors referred to, 349. Automatic movements in attack, 106. Baths in ejjilepsy, 335. Belladonna, treatment by, 320. Bibliograjihy, 349. Bromide of potassium, use of, 332. Bronchial secretion, in attack, 110. Cachectic convulsions, diagnosis of, 296. Cachexia, cause of convulsion, 20. CachexiiE, in relation to epilej)sy, 254. Cannabis Indica, effect of, on convul- sions, 223. use of, in epilepsy, 321. Capillaries, enlargement of, in me- dulla oblongata, 240. Carditis, cause of convulsion, 20. Cases of abortive epilepsy, 116. Case I., illustrating mental integrity, 47. Case II., illustrating mental integrity, 52. Case III., illustrating excessive moti- lity, 66. Case IV., illustrating aura, 92. Case V., with motor aura, 96. Case VI., abortive seizures, 98. Case VII., epileptic mania, 207. Case VIII., mania complicated with epilepsy, 21. CavSe IX., meningitis, 212. Case X., cyanosis and convulsions, 2.30. Case XI., cyanosis and convulsions, 231.