RT Journal A1 Clark L T1 INfluenza and epileptiform attacks JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1919 FD December 6 VO 73 IS 23 SP 1767 OP 1767 DO 10.1001/jama.1919.26120490002014a UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.26120490002014a AB Since no case has yet been recorded in which epilepsy or epileptiform attacks have apparently been initiated by influenza, a case of this type may be worthy of brief mention. It is the only one of which I am aware.REPORT OF CASEĀ  A boy, aged 2 years, with an unimportant family and personal history, contracted a severe attack of influenza in January, 1919. He had a temperature as high as 104. The disorder was initiated by general convulsions which endured for several hours. The fever lasted four days. A week later, after a normal temperature for two days, he again had a fever of from 104 to 106 but without convulsions, and pneumonia developed. He was ill ten days, and two weeks after recovering he began having almost daily both grand mal and petit mal attacks. He had a persistent cough and was physically prostrated for several weeks. He