The History of Modern Epilepsy: The Beginning, 1865-1914 / Edition 5

ISBN-13: 9780313315893 Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated Publication date: 05/30/2001 Series: Contributions in Medical Studies Series , #45 Edition description: 5th ed. Pages: 312 Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d) Lexile: 1390L (what's this?) Although the history of epilepsy, one of the most common serious neurological disorders, can easily be traced back to ancient times, the modern understanding of the disease only began in the middle of the 19th century. This history of the first fifty years of modern epileptology reflects the thinking, accomplishments, and failures of physicians between 1865 and 1914. This epoch presented a very bleak clinical picture: diagnosis was difficult and often arbitrary; treatment was poor and, at times, worse than the disease; and patients, who were usually viewed as having a progressive dementing condition, were shunned by society.Tradition, physicians' immaculate perceptions, their thinking in analogies, and the difficulty a doctor has in