The Falling Sickness,9780801848490

The Falling Sickness

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ISBN13: 9780801848490
ISBN10: 0801848490
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1994-03-01
Publisher(s): Johns Hopkins University Press
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Summary

Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover edition.

Author Biography

Owsei Temkin, who received his medical degree from the University of Leipzig, is William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine and former director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine

Table of Contents

Preface to Second Edition vii
Preface to First Edition ix
PART ONE: ANTIQUITY
Epilepsy: The Sacred Disease
3(25)
The Concept of the Sacred Disease
3(7)
The Magicians
10(5)
Sacred Disease and Epilepsy
15(6)
Physicians and Magic
21(7)
Epilepsy in Ancient Medical Science
28(57)
The Clinical Picture
31(20)
Etiology
31(5)
Definitions
36(1)
Aura
37(3)
The Epileptic Attack
40(2)
The Course of the Disease
42(2)
Prognosis and Complications
44(3)
Diagnosis
47(2)
Differential Diagnosis
49(2)
Theories
51(14)
The Fifth and Fourth Centuries
51(5)
Third Century B.C.-- Second Century A.D.
56(4)
Galen
60(5)
Treatment
65(20)
Indications and Aim of Treatment
65(1)
Methods and Theory of Treatment
66(12)
The Problem of Pharmacology
78(7)
PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES
Epilepsy: The Falling Sickness
85(33)
Names and Nations
85(17)
Possession
86(6)
Lunacy
92(4)
The Falling Evil
96(6)
Cure and Prevention
102(16)
Magic and Superstition
102(7)
Saints and Relics
109(5)
Infection
114(4)
Medieval Medical Theories
118(19)
Early Middle Ages
118(3)
Scholasticism
121(16)
PART THREE: THE RENAISSANCE
Theological, Philosophical, and Social Aspects
137(47)
The Theological Debate
138(10)
The Debate on Possession
138(3)
The Debate on Witchcraft
141(3)
The Debate on Magic and Superstitious Treatment
144(4)
The Epileptic as a Prophet
148(13)
Prophesying Epileptics
148(6)
Epilepsy and Prophetic Trance
154(7)
Some Social Aspects
161(9)
Great Epileptics
161(3)
Beggars and Cheats
164(6)
Paracelsus and Hermetic Medicine
170(14)
Paracelsus
170(7)
Allegories
177(4)
Van Helmont
181(3)
Broadening Experience and Changing Theory
184(21)
New Observations
184(11)
New Theories
195(10)
PART FOUR: THE GREAT SYSTEMS AND THE PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The Great Systems
205(15)
Iatrochemists and Iatrophysicists
205(8)
Animism and Eclecticism
213(7)
The Enlightenment
220(35)
The Flight against the Supernatural and Occult
220(21)
The Retionalistic Interpretation of Possession
220(7)
The Revolt against the Occult
227(5)
The Purging of Therapy
232(9)
Pathology and Nosology
241(14)
Pathology
241(6)
Nosology
247(8)
PART FIVE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800-1861)
First Period: 1800-1833
255(23)
The Hospitalization of Epileptics
255(16)
Terminology
257(3)
Statistics
260(5)
Psychiatric Studies
265(6)
Anatomical Optimism and Pessimism
271(7)
Second Period: 1833-1861
278(25)
The Reflex Theory
278(7)
Nosological Doubts
285(6)
Therapy
291(12)
PART SIX: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE AGE OF HUGHLINGS JACKSON
Jackson's Forerunners
303(25)
The Situation around 1860
303(2)
Jacksonian Epilepsy
305(11)
Bravais and Bright
305(6)
Todd, Carpenter, and Wilks
311(5)
The Dreamy State (Psychomotor Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy)
316(12)
Moral, Griesinger, Falret
316(8)
Herpin
324(4)
John Hughlings Jackson
328(19)
The End of the Falling Sickness?
347(36)
Idiopathic Epilepsy
347(4)
Epilepsy and Hysteria
351(8)
Crime, Religion, and the Epileptic Character
359(11)
The World of the Epileptic
370(13)
Epilogue 383(8)
Appendix I 391(2)
Appendix II 393(4)
Bibliography 397(48)
Index of Personal Names 445(10)
Index of Subjects 455

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