Transactions of the National Association for the Study of Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics at the first annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., May 14th and 15th, 1901 / edited by William Pryor Letchworth.
- National Association for the Study of Epilespy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics.
- Date:
- 1901
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Credit: Transactions of the National Association for the Study of Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics at the first annual meeting held in Washington, D.C., May 14th and 15th, 1901 / edited by William Pryor Letchworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY IN BRAZIL. [Through the kind courtesy of the Honorable Charles Page Bryan, the United States Minister to Brazil, the Association is favored with the fol- lowing information in the form of a letter from Dr. Haoelburg, Medical- Deputy of the Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro, as also an interest- ing paper by Dr. Brandao, a leading specialist of nervous diseases, (page 108.) Editor.] Rio de Janeiro, 15th of April, 1901. Honorable Colonel Charles Page Bryan, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Sir:—I beg to answer in the following brief resume some points of view in regard to epilepsy, that you have especially referred to me. My personal experience with epilepsy is based exclusively on observations of patients in my private practice. Epilepsy is very common in Brazil, and in all parts of this country. There are cases both of genuine epilepsy and hystero-epilepsy. The symptoms are not different from those of this disease in other countries. Epileptics often show distinct symptoms of an innate and hereditary neuropathic constitution. Syph- ilis of the parents, paternal alcoholic excess, a maternal neu- rotic disposition may be very often verified. The first attacks occur from the third or fifth year of age and become more pronounced toward the period of puberty. Adult epilepsy first presenting itself in advanced age, has](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28133328_0138.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
