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That Epilepsy cannot be caused by Toxæmic Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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From time to time one meets with the opinion, or with expressions and general phrases indicating the unavowed opinion, that “idiopathic” epilepsy results from a toxæmic state,—that is to say, that epilepsy the disease is caused by poisons circulating in the blood; or less positively that epilepsy the paroxysm is determined, the attack precipitated, by the transient presence in the blood of such poisons; and in both cases the unexpressed idea seems to be that these poisons get there, in the manner of other auto-intoxicants, by reason of the inefficient performance of the digestive function in some respect.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1903 

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(1) Archeologia, vol. Iviii, p. 322.Google Scholar

(2) From 55 Ibs. 2 oz. to 48 lbs. 4 oz. within a week, to quote a concrete instance, via., a loss of one eighth of the total weight.Google Scholar

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