RT Journal
T1 INfantile cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD May 27
VO XXXII
IS 21
SP 1187
OP 1188
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450480051021
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450480051021
AB Epilepsy as a symptom frequently follows in the track of gross cerebral lesions of a varied nature, and is especially seen after the cerebral palsies of infancy. Most of the arduous and painstaking work on child palsies has been done within the last ten years by German, English and American writers. We now have the voluminous work of Freud—a fitting consummation of all the works of the other authors. It is a valuable book to us at present, as more careful attention to-day is being paid the mentally deficient child from a medicopedagogic standpoint. Unfortunately, Freud's work has not been translated from the German. Much doubt still exists whether infantile eclamptic convulsions can cause cerebral hemorrhage. Gowers, in discussing epileptic convulsions, states that apoplexy caused by the epileptic paroxysm is an exceedingly rare event. The prominence which convulsive phenomena play in the onset of cerebral palsy in childhood has