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Title: Alienist and neurologist.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Neurology Psychology Psychiatry Psychology, Clinical Forensic Psychiatry
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Ev.E. Carreras, Steam Printer, Publisher and Binder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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, Yale University Press. 7. Flechsig: Die Leilungsbahnen im Cehirn and Riicl(enmarl(, 1876. 8. Eugenio Tanzi: Menial Diseases. Trans, by Robertson and Mackenzie. Redman andCo., New York. 9. Pawlow: The Work of the Digestive Glands, London, 1902. Also,Pawlow: Livre jubilaire du Professeur Charles Richet, 1912. 10. Crile: The Relation Between the Physical State of the Brain Cells and Brain Functions.The Origin and Nature of the Emotions, page 111. Published by W. B. Saunders Co., Phila-delphia, Pa. 11. Crile: Phylogenetic Association in Relation of Certain Medical Problems. Loc. cit.,page 10. 12. Mott, F. W.: The Brain in Shell Shock. British Medical Journal, November 10, 1917,pages 612, 615. 13. J. D. Ball, M. D.: The Relation of Castro-Intestinal Toxemia to Circulatory Hypertensionin the Manic Depressive Forms of Insanity. American Journal of l(isanit\), 1911-12. 14. Sherrington: The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, pages 255 to 269. 15. Lloyd Morgan: Animal Behavior, London.
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« Iii^e Two Hundred Forty-Three SYPHILIS AS AN ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR IN EPILEPSY * By DAVID S. BOOTH, M. D., St. Louis. LTHOUGH epilepsy is defined on the basis of an entity as achronic disease characterized by recurring attacks of loss ofconsciousness, with or without tonic or clonic spasms, or both,it is in reality but a syndrome resulting from various condi-tions which through their action on the brain produce a suddeninvoluntary discharge of nervous energy. In other words, itis the manifestation of the involuntary conversion of potentialinto actual energy through instability of the cerebral neuronichierarchy—either an excessive irritability of the sensoro-motorcenters or diminished control (inhibition ) through debility ofthe psycho-motor area. Since epilepsy is but the manifestation of various conditions,some known and discoverable by a thorough and complete ex-amination, others unknown and not discoverable even poslmortem by any means yet knovra—so-called idiopathic—it isimp

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