The third case occurred in a boy, aged twelve years, who
had been epileptic from infancy, the status ej?ilej)ticus some-
times lasting twenty-four hours. He had, however, expe-
rienced no attack for eighteen months before he was brouo-ht
to be vaccinated. "His mother," says Dr. Dickson, "brought
him in compliance with his own wish, and after he was vacci-
nated he sat down on a chair while his mother was being'
operated upon. After some four or five minutes, he put his
hand up to his right ear, and said he had a pain in the ear.
On placing my hand on that organ I found it intensely cold.
After sitting for one or two minutes longer I saw him become
blanched. He then got up, and ran toward the door, and had
just touched the handle, when he reeled round on the right
foot, and fell forward. I reached him in time bimatoprost uk to catch him in
my arms, and I laid him, rigid purchase bimatoprost and insensible, but unhurt,
upon the floor. He was insensible about thirty seconds. He
then became a little flushed, was seized with buy bimatoprost uk one very slight
convulsion, opened his eyes, and the next instant fell asleep.
He slept lumigan bimatoprost about ten minutes, after which he sat up, and said
he felt very ill. He did not know what the matter had been cheap bimatoprost
with him ; he said all he remembered was that somebody had
shaken him. His mother asked me the question whether it
was a fit or whether he had ' only fainted.' On the morning
of the day on w^hich buy bimatoprost online the occurrence took place it was noticed
that the child refused his breakfast. His breath had a fetid
odor, and he admitted that his bowels had been confined for
some days.
"In bimatoprost synthesis this case the family history pointed to hereditary taint.
The child's maternal grandfather died of cerebral disease,
thoitgh the malady did not appear in any of his children or
grandchildren, or in any member of their families, until this
child's first attack. On the paternal side the family history is
good. Although the exciting cause of the order bimatoprost online fit I have described
272 EECENT CONTErBFTIOIirS TO
■was undoubtedly the intestinal irregularity, the case teaches
much from the fact of the slightness of the determining cir-
cumstances. He admitted that he did not feel the vaccina-
tion ; it was to him, therefore, merely an idea. The phenome-
non was, consequently, subjective, but subjective impressions
are as exhausting to the cerebral cells as objective, and, as
shown by the cases I have given, readily upset the nervous
equilibrium or balance of control.
" The special interest attaching to the two first-mentioned
is the fact that they were first, or almost first attacks, and
therefore there Avas perhaps some excuse for their friends
mistaking bimatoprost 0.03 the manifestations for faintings. The m.other of
the second-mentioned, however, recognized and at first ad-
mitted the epilej^tic character of the afifection, though she
afterward persuaded herself, and insisted order bimatoprost among her relations,
that the attack was only a faint. The cases, however, were
all instances of genuine epileptic seizure, and all reached the
degree of complete loss of consciousness. It is certainly re-
markable how unwilling relations and friends are to admit
the fact of epilepsy, and how ready they often are to stifle
their fears with the assumption bimatoprost price that the patient has ' only
fainted.' It is certain that the form of epilepsy we call le
petit inal bears in its outward fonn so strong a resemblance
to syncope that it is of the highest generic bimatoprost importance to study mi-
nutely all the circumstances of a patient the subject of bimatoprost 0.01 faint-
ing, lest, under the assumption that the attack is a mere faint,
we overlook bimatoprost online the graver condition."
After noticing the confirmation which these cases afford bimatoprost ophthalmic of
the fact that the proximate cause of the epileptic bimatoprost cost phenomenon
is cerebral ansemia, and observing that both girls, while pro-
fessing bimatoprost canada to be brave, were afraid of buy cheap bimatoprost the operation, he comes to
the question of treatment, of which the essential part, in his
opinion, " is to endeavor to teach the patients themselves to
exercise such judgment in all their actions that they may, if
possible, prevent recurrence of the attacks. Every efibrt must
be made to ward off attacks and to nourish the brain-tiSsue
in such subjects. All exhausting influences, particularly ex-
citement, and long abstinence from food, must be carefully
avoided, and the due performance of all natural functions
MENTAL SCIENCE IN GEEAT BRITArN-. 273
adequately and normally sustained. Epileptic patients, par-
ticularly young girls, are often self-willed. It is, therefore,
highly necessary to win their confidence, in order to persuade
them of the necessity of adopting rule? and hahits of living
which are essential to their good."
Girls are often captions and capricious about their food,
and neglect to take it with that regularity which in an epilep-
tic is necessary to avoid exhaustion. To starve at one meal-
time and eat inordinately at another is a certain means of
nursing epilepsy, since it brings about alternate irritation and
exhaustion. Irregularity in attendance to the calls of Mature,
also, is a neglectful habit to be watched and remedied. Con-
stipation is a frequent attendant of epilepsy, is often increased
by neglect, and is a very frequent excitant of an epileptic
seizure.
" Precaution also must be observed in regard to direct ex-
citement. ISTot long since I witnessed a young lady in a ball-
room drop, as though dead, into her partner's arms while she
was waltzing. Her loss of consciousness was complete, and,
although she was able almost instantly afterward to walk to a
chair, it was purchase bimatoprost online some minutes before she recollected where she
was. She told me that she was quite aware of her malady, that
she was subject to seizures of the kind, and she never could
waltz for many minutes without feeling giddy; but that
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