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In his Treatise on Epilepsy, the French 17th century physician Jean Taxil refers to Aristotle 's "famous epileptics". This list includes Heracles, Ajax, Bellerophon, Socrates, Plato, Empedocles, Maracus of Syracuse, and the Sibyls. [1] However, historian of medicine Owsei Temkin argues that Aristotle had in fact made a list of melancholics and ...
On the Sacred Disease is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written about 400 B.C. Its authorship cannot be confirmed, so is regarded as dubious. The treatise is thought to contain one of the first recorded observations of epilepsy in humans. The author explains these phenomena by the flux of the phlegm flowing from the brain into the veins ...
Henry Molaison was born on February 26, 1926, in Manchester, Connecticut, and experienced intractable epilepsy that has sometimes been attributed to a bicycle accident at the age of seven. [note 1] He had minor or partial seizures for many years, and then major or tonic-clonic seizures following his 16th birthday. He worked for a time on an ...
Penfield at Princeton University in 1913. Born in Spokane, Washington, on January 26, 1891, Penfield spent most of his early life in Hudson, Wisconsin. [1][3] He studied at Princeton University, where he was a member of Cap and Gown Club [4] and played on the football team. After graduation in 1913, he was hired briefly as the team coach.
Neurology. Sir William Richard Gowers FRS (/ ˈɡaʊ.ərz /; 20 March 1845 – 4 May 1915) was a British neurologist, described by Macdonald Critchley in 1949 as "probably the greatest clinical neurologist of all time". [1] He practised at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptics, Queen Square, London (now the National Hospital ...
Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The Full House actor, 65, tells PEOPLE exclusively he was diagnosed in October after an upper respiratory infection caused major ...
Height. 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an English man known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "The Elephant Man ", and then went to live at the London Hospital, in Whitechapel, after meeting Sir Frederick Treves, subsequently becoming ...
140,000 (2021) [9] Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. [10] An epileptic seizure is the clinical manifestation of an abnormal, excessive, and synchronized electrical discharge in the neurons. [1] The occurrence of two or more unprovoked seizures defines epilepsy. [11]