...true, the following definition is perhaps as satisfactory as any that can be formulated at this time : Epilepsy is a disease or disorder affecting the brain....or loss of consciousness, together with impairment or loss of motor coordination, with or without convulsions. Should we wish to make the essential points...

...true, the following definition is perhaps as satisfactory as any that can be formulated at this time : characterized by recurrent paroxysms which are abrupt...or loss of consciousness, together with impairment or loss of motor coordination, with or without convulsions. Should we wish to make the essential points...

...himself seen. His definition of epilepsy is—a disease or disorder affecting the brain, characterised by recurrent paroxysms which are abrupt in appearance,...there is impairment or loss of consciousness, together witli impairment or loss of motor co-ordination, with or without convulsions. This is not very different...

...epilepsy. Dr. Spratling defines epilepsy as " a disease or disorder alfeeting the brain characterised by recurrent paroxysms which are abrupt in appearance,...short, and in which there is impairment or loss of motor co-ordination with or without convulsions." This is a sufficiently comprehensive definition to...

...writer on epilepsy, after quoting the above and other writers says : "Epilepsy is a disease or disiorder affecting the brain, characterized '.by recurrent...paroxysms which are abrupt in appearance, variable in duration—but generally short— and in which there is an impairment or loss of consciousness together...

...definition by the author embraces the more notable characteristics of the disease in all its types: "Epilepsy is a disease or disorder affecting the brain...or loss of consciousness together with impairment or loss of motor coordination, with or without convulsions."1 All phenomena that comprise an epileptic...

...absent without the case losing any of its epileptic character. The same author defines epilepsy as "a disease or disorder affecting the brain, characterized...or loss of consciousness, together with impairment or loss of motor coordination with or without convulsions." Or, to make clearer the essentials of the...

...why. Spratling, the most recent writer on epilepsy, after quoting the above and other writers says: "Epilepsy is a disease or disorder affecting the brain,...— but generally short — and in which there is an impairment or loss of consciousness together with an impairment or loss of motor coordination with...

...brief or accurate definition of the disease, but the one suggested by Spratling seems very acceptable : "Epilepsy is a disease or disorder affecting the brain,...or loss of consciousness, together with impairment or loss of motor co-ordination with or without convulsions." The ocular symptoms of epilepsy are manifest...

...definition by the author embraces the more notable characteristics of tindisease in all its types: "Epilepsy is a disease or disorder affecting the brain...characterized by recurrent paroxysms which are abrupt in api>earaii<v. variable in duration, but generally short, and in which there is impairment or loss of...