Excerpt from Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment The object of this work is to consider the clinical history of the chronic convulsive diseases of the latter class; which depend on such conditions of the nerve centres as elude detection by the methods of ex amination at present at our disposal. In considering these diseases it will, however, be necessary to refer to many facts relating to the organic diseases of the brain. There is, moreover, one class of convulsions due to organic brain disease which it has seemed well to consider more fully, namely, those which succeed an attack of hemiplegia from which a more or less complete recovery has taken place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.