Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases : their causes, symptoms and treatment.

  • William Richard Gowers
Date:
1885
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    The associations of epilepsy with heart disease, with chorea, and with past, inactive organic disease of the brain, are considered in another chapter. In this account of the causes of epilepsy, no mention has been made of one to which a prominent position is usually assigned—the irritation of a peripheral nerve, as by a foreign body, a spiculum of bone, or a decayed tooth. The occurrence of convulsions from this cause is proved by the testimony of good observers, but such cases are extremely rare,, and no instance has come under my own notice.
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