Excerpt from Epilepsy and Other Convulsive Affections: Their Pathology and Treatment In the former edition of this work I introduced the remarks I had to make upon epilepsy and other convulsive disorders by certain considerations respecting the physiology of muscular motion. I did this because I believed that there could be no satisfactory interpretation of those disorders in which muscular contraction is in excess until a radical error in the theory of muscular motion had been corrected. I knew of no better course then; I know of no better course - now for a sound physiology must ever go before a sound pathology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.