Excerpt from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1918, Vol. 47: An American Monthly Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry Founded in 1874; Official Organ of the American Neurological Association, the New York Neurological Society, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, the Philadelphia Neurological Society The same holds for the epilepsies and so down the line. Syphi litic epilepsy is a term good from the epileptologist's point of View: from the point Of view of the physician and therapeutist in general, it is better to classify the case as one of epileptic syphilis, viz., in our nomenclature, Neurosyphilis epileptica. 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.