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On Nocturnal Epilepsy, and its Relations to Somnambulism

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
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Few problems are we called upon to solve surpassing in importance that of demonstrating the insane nature of the evil propensities and criminal deeds, which are the outcome of nocturnal epilepsy. If, during the night, a man be periodically roused from his sleep in great bewilderment and mental agony, that quickly cease; or, if in the midst of apparent sanity, he were to be found, unexpectedly, in the morning, either maniacal, or sullenly disposed to unprovoked acts of extreme violence, we may, with confidence, diagnosticate that he is an epileptic, and irresponsible for what he has perpetrated.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 24 , Issue 108 , January 1879 , pp. 568 - 597
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1879 

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