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Marriage and Hereditariness of Epileptics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. G. Echeverria
M. G. Echeverria*
Affiliation:
Hospital for Epileptics and Paralytics, and to the City Asylum for the Insane, New York, &c
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Arethæus asserts that several physicians, and among them the famous Asclepiades, observed that venery cures epilepsy developed at the age of puberty. The same opinion was professed by Scribonius Largus, and, with these authors, the corruption of retained semen originated the spasmodic malady in such cases, Alfarins à Cruce, commenting on these primitive ideas, contends that, in similar instances, the change of age effects the cure improperly attributed to venery. His pupil Sinibaldi, declares venery powerless against fits, exploding after the age of fifteen, especially in adults, or individuals of an advanced or old age. But in epilepsy à putrescent, upon seminal retention, venery may prove of such great moment as to occasion altogether its cure.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 26 , Issue 115 , October 1880 , pp. 346 - 369
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1880 

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