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A JAMA reviewer hailed the 1945 first edition of The Falling Sickness as a reference work with 'no historical rival' which 'occupies a seperate shelf in the reviewer's Library of Fame.' A revised second edition, published in 1971, increased the bibliography from a hefty 706 references to a weighty 1120. The number of footnotes, many in French, Latin, or Greek, multiplied from 1721 to 2073! The review of the second edition deemed Tempkin's intensely researched and well-organized historical work 'magnificient'... [The 1994 publication is] a facinating study of the history of one of the world's most intriguing maladies.
The definitive account... Detailed, meticulous, and accurate... A thoroughly admirable and informative introduction to our knowledge of epilepsy in the Western world from antiquity to the early twentieth century.
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488
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9780801848490
Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
Part I: Antiquity
Chapter 1. Epilepsy: The Sacred Disease
Chapter 2. Epilepsy in Ancient Medical Science
Part II: The Middle Ages
Chapter 3. Epilepsy: The
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
Part I: Antiquity
Chapter 1. Epilepsy: The Sacred Disease
Chapter 2. Epilepsy in Ancient Medical Science
Part II: The Middle Ages
Chapter 3. Epilepsy: The Falling Sickness
Chapter 4. Medieval Medical Theories
Part III: The Renaissance
Chapter 5. Theological, Philosophical, and Social Aspects
Chapter 6. Broadening Experience and Changing Theory
Part IV: The Great Systems and the Period of Enlightenment
Chapter 7. The Great Systems
Chapter 8. The Enlightenment
Part V: The Nineteenth Century (1800–1861)
Chapter 9. First Period: 1800–1833
Chapter 10. Second Period: 1833–1861
Part VI: The Nineteenth Century – The Age of Hughlings Jackson
Chapter 11. Jackson's Forerunners
Chapter 12. John Hughlings Jackson
Chapter 13. The End of the Falling Sickness?
Epilogue
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index of Personal Names
Index of Subjects
