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On Syphilitic Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. G. Echeverria
M. G. Echeverria*
Affiliation:
Hospital for Epileptics and Paralytics; City Asylum for the Insane, New York
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Syphilis has always been regarded as one of the accidental causes of Epilepsy, and ranks, indeed, among those which exert the most decided influence on its development. The epileptic malady, when so originated, throws almost into the shade the other constitutional accidents, or sequels of the syphilitic infection, if they are not—as it often happens—in suspension or latency. The first point, therefore, to be considered before we proceed to the description of its characters, is—at what stage of syphilis does the neurosis commonly occur, or rather, is there a secondary and a tertiary epilepsy, distinct from each other, as is held by Fournier, who judges it difficult to connect the former, principally exhibited by females, like a transient specific neurosis, with any lesion of the nervous centres; whereas the latter should be, on the contrary, manifestly consecutive to encephalic lesions, thus constituting one of the manifold expressions of that complex organic state known as cerebral syphilis.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 26 , Issue 114 , July 1880 , pp. 165 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1880 

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