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Epilepsy: A Metabolic Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Guy P. U. Prior  and
S. Evan Jones
S. Evan Jones
Affiliation:
The Mental Hospital, Rydalmere, N.S.W
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Extract

Gowers states that the morbid state causing epilepsy “consists in some trifling alteration in the chemical constitution of the grey matter of the brain on which the instability spoken of depends.”

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 63 , Issue 260 , January 1917 , pp. 36 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1917 

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