OS 1 RD VES anal es ae al APS RTA ee SPs Sr A gee Lael ree — ae 
Beige po 8. Sang. AM ae ey ean ee ope ae ren tat 
ae PES 4 uy iste ois oe ei 
: Pe ht ant : PEASE Ne 
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REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 219 
disease, after admission, and caused death in twenty of these. 
The following figures show the disposal of the 208 patients who 
suffered from it on admission. 
| Male. Female. ‘Total. 
Recovered eee 35 
Re 8 4 12 
Transferred "5 35 110 
: Ba d 20 6 
Remaining a poe 25 
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143 | 65 208 
gee 
In stating that thirty-five recovered, I desire particularly to 
out that the recovery was from the insanity and not from 
he epilepsy. The recoveries from epilepsy I can count upon my 
fingers ; and in the majority of these the disease was of short 
Standing and due to intemperance. In one case the disease, 
isappeared after an operation 
lymosis ; and in two cases of well-marked epilepsy of long 
ration occurring in children, the recovery was complete under 
€ prolonged administration of bromide of potassium. There isa 
case now in the hospital which promises to terminate in the 
Same satisfactory way. 
‘The subject of epilepsy, as it is seen in asylums, would of itself 
furnish a text for a lengthy paper, and as I desire to make these 
hotes as practically useful as possible, I will ondy stop to give a 
hints on treatment suggested by experience. If cure cannot 
« by maniacal excitement, extremely quiet and manageable. 
uy reduces the number of the fits, but it subdues and often 
ely clears away the mental excitement accompanying 
It is a medicine, however, which it is useless to play with. | 
iven steadily, persistentl i 
