TY  - JOUR
T1  - INfantile cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
Y1  - 1899/05/27
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450480051021
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1187
EP  - 1188
VL  - XXXII
IS  - 21
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450480051021
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450480051021
ER  -