THE CONVULSIVE FACE.

The profoundly disturbing effect which epilepsy has upon the whole organism, altering its vital functions and secretions, has been an object of close study for years. From time to time various writers have portrayed the characteristics of epilepsy and its effects upon the physique. We have seen that the convulsive habit may manifest itself in many ways: in gait, in posture and purposeless acts. It appears logical to us that often repeated patho-physiologic phenomena, as seen in epilepsy, should leave behind it an impress of the convulsive habit. We frequently see in children, and even in adult epileptics, the convulsive hand, consisting of a flexing grasp of the fingers in the palm over the flexed thumb. And often after a severe epileptic fit the patient remains as in a mold fashioned by the convulsion. The arms and feet remain in strained and contorted postures, a more or less perfect cast