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At both sessions of the Academy, when our savant set forth his 
researches upon' epilepsy, there was some discussion, on the part of dif¬ 
ferent members, as to whether the convulsions artificially produced in the 
Guinea-pigs were really epileptic. Relative to the fact observed by Dr. 
* Brown-Sequard of the turgescence of the mamma on the paralyzed side in 
a female Guinea-pig, M. Gubler stated that he had noticed and reported 
analogous phenomena as occurring in conjunction with paralysis in the 
human subject—i.e., hyperaemia of the lachrymal and salivary glands 
accompanying facial paralysis. 
Dr. Brown-S^quard remarked that he had once had a good deal of doubt 
about the epileptic nature of the symptoms which he had brought out in 
animals; but after long comparative study, he had arrived at the convic- 
Hmn of the identity of the disease in man with the symptoms produced in 
x hrk experiments. In reply to objections founded on certain distinctions 
which Dr. Chauftard had attempted to set up between the two classes of 
lesions, he declared that “loss of consciousness” was produced in the 
animals artificially made epileptic; and as to the question of epileptic 
anaesthesia, he could pinch the creatures, prick them, burn them during 
the attack, without determining other phenomena than movements due 
to reflex action. These latter phenomena have been perfectly well estab¬ 
lished as occurring in the human epileptic. There exist in epilepsy artifi¬ 
cially induced, the three principal characteristics of epilepsy ill man-—viz., 
loss of consciousness; convulsive action; and intellectual torpor follow - 
