TY  - JOUR
T1  - TIme stood still
AU  - Garrett PR
Y1  - 1979/01/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290280017015
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 135
EP  - 135
VL  - 241
IS  - 2
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    A brief note in MEDICAL NEWS (240:1218, 1978) suggests that the turn-of-the-century concoction for epilepsy based on the after-birth of a woman was devised by physicians of the day who were testing their creativity. On the contrary, in 1676 Salmon1 (undoubtedly not the originator) discussed the medicinal use of "the secundine and the navel string" as follows:A Drop or two of the Blood of the Navel String... prevents the Falling-sickness, Convulsions, and all other Fits... The Secundine calcin'd, and given in Southernwood Water... every Day half an Ounce, while the Moon decreases in Light (and if possible in Motion too) wonderfully cures Struma's, or the Kings-Evil, and the Falling-sickness [epilepsy].More than 225 years without a single, randomized, clinical study with an adequate control?
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290280017015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290280017015
ER  -