Epilepsy: its pathology and treatment : Being an essay to which was awarded a prize of four thousand francs by the Académie royale de médécine [sic] de Belgique, December 31, 1889 / By Hobart Amory Hare.

  • H. A. Hare
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1890
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Credit: Epilepsy: its pathology and treatment : Being an essay to which was awarded a prize of four thousand francs by the Académie royale de médécine [sic] de Belgique, December 31, 1889 / By Hobart Amory Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hi dory. T Medicine at Lyons, and the Sieur Aubernon, surgeon of Lyons, have to-day given under their seal, which certificates your petitioner shows and sets forth to you; and as he has been informed that a criminal, condemned by your judgment to be hanged, is about to be executed, may it please you. Monsieur, to permit him, after the execution of this miserable person, to remove the skull of his head, in order to employ it in the preparation of this remedy ; and he will consider himself bound to continue in prayer to God for your prosperity and health. Pessoneaux. Let this be shown to the Procureur-General of Lyons. 80th Octobre, 1706. Claret La Tourrette, On behalf of the king I do not forbid the concessions of the present request [Signature illegible.] Lyons, 30 Novembre, 1706. Let it be done according to the decree of theProcureur-G6n6ral. Lyons, 30 Novembre, 1706. Claret La Tourrette. To Monsieur tfie Cnrainal Lieutenant-General in the SenescTial's Court of Lymis:— The sisters, rector, and governors of the General Almshouse in Lyons humbly pray and assure you that they require in pharmacy several skulls of persons who have died violent deaths, in order to use them in the composition of several very necessary remedies,—among others, of one against epilepsy, to which several persons in the above- named house are subject. They are, therefore, obliged to have recourse to you. May it please you. Monsieur, considering the necessity above pointed out, and for the good of the poor, to permit the surgeon of the aforesaid house to select and remove from the burial-place of the Penitent Sisters of Mercy such skulls as they may find proper for the preparation of the aforesaid remedies; and to this end the said Penitent Sisters be invited to permit the said memorial, and the poor of the said Almshouse will pray for your prosperity and health. Bourg, Christin. Let it be done as it is required. Lyons, 13 Septembre, 1710. Claret La Tourrette. Another old theory resembled very closely that by which insane persons received the designation of luna- tic, namely, that epilepsy was always worse during the moon's phases. This notion was held until very recent times, wlien M. Moreau proved it to be untrue by an