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Epileptics: Their Mental Condition. A Lecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. A. F. Browne*
Affiliation:
Lunacy for Scotland

Extract

“On en est même vena aujourd'hui admettre que tons les épileptiques, sans exception, presentent, à certain degré, des perturbations de l'intelligence ou da caractère, et qu'aucun d'eux ne peut être considéré comme absolument sain d'esprit, [p. 661.] ∗ ∗ Cependant tous les auteurs sont d'accord pour reconnaître que la plupart des épileptiqnes présentent, à divers degrés, des troubles de I'intelligence et du caractère dans le cours habituel de leur existence, en dehors de leurs attaques convulsives.”–“De l'Etat Mental des Epileptiques,” par le Dr. Jules Fahret; ‘Archives Générales de Médecine,’ t. ii, 1860, p. 668.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1865 

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