Experimental epilepsy. A study of the effects of cerebralwounds and cerebral excisions, with a review of the literature of post traumatic epilepsy.

That convulsive seizures may follow injuries to the head was probably known by pre-historic man. Nevertheless, despite the age-old recognition of the relationship between headtrauma and certain forms of epilepsy, and despite the untold investigations into the treatment of this unfortunate sequela, amazingly little progress has been made in an understanding of the underlying cause and the basic principles of therapy. Adapting the definition of Lennox and Cobb (1928) as applied to the entire field of convulsive seizures, we may limit ourselves to a discussion of "a syndrome characterized by the sudden appearance of paroxysms, of which convulsive movements or loss of consciousness or both, are a principal element", but which, in the class of convulsions under discussion are associated with definite and demonstrable injury of the brain and its envelopes, due to violence. [...