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tern,, the brain and spinal cord, until they are sur- 

 charged; and now at the first opportunity it breaks 

 forth, and its power for the time is irresistible, as in 

 an epileptic fit. 



Eye specialists claim that continued irritation, caused 

 by constant strain of some of the muscles of the eye, 

 has produced epilepsy in school children, and that the 

 correction of the trouble with glasses has resulted in a 

 permanent cure. 



The correction removed the irritation. 



Those who have studied the question of epilepsy be- 

 lieve that with attention to diet and elimination a cure 

 may be effected, while we all know that drug-medica- 

 tion is useless. Operations are also useless. All forms 

 have been tried. 



If injury should drive a sliver of bone into the skull, 

 or cause other brain-pressure, an operation might re- 

 lieve and effect a cure. Epilepsy is seldom caused by 

 injury. 



During an attack of epilepsy the patient foams at 

 the mouth because he is unable to swallow. The same 

 is true during an attack of hydrophobia. 



Many will be unwilling to believe indigestion the 

 cause of so many ailments, as they may never have had 

 any pain or other evidence referable to the digestive 

 organs; yet pain and other evidences of dyspepsia are 

 not always referred to the seat of trouble, but may be 

 flashed over a nerve-trunk and appear at some distant 

 point. There may be burning, itching, a creeping or 

 crawling sensation in different parts of the body, there 



