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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 2, 441-442, February 1, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Book Review

A DISEASE ONCE SACRED. A HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL UNDERSTANDING OF EPILEPSY

J. M. S. Pierce

Anlaby, Hull, East Yorks, UK

A DISEASE ONCE SACRED. A HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL UNDERSTANDING OF EPILEPSY
By Mervyn J. Eadie and Peter F. Bladin2001. Eastleigh: John Libbey.
Price £24. Pp. 248. ISBN 0-86196-607-4..

Epileptic convulsions can be understood, as ‘the result of experiments made by disease on the brain of man’. (John Hughlings Jackson, 1875).

Rather than launching into ancient relics of epilepsy, Eadie and Bladin start this work with an excellent, concise account of the current knowledge, which forms a sound backdrop to their history.

The topics are covered in four sections. The first deals with the present day understanding of epilepsy and compares it with the thinking of the past. It traces these notions on a chronological basis. Then we read about the clinical manifestations of epilepsy recognized by physicians from ancient times through the renaissance to Jackson and the 19th and 20th centuries. The meaning of words related . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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