Some Notes on Status Epilepticus and its Treatment

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IN all asylums and places where epileptics are taken care of many cases of this condition must occur annually, and the treatment of it must be of grave consideration in the care of these cases. The figures of Dr. Lord show us that in ten years in the Hanwell London County Asylum 26 per cent, of the deaths in epilepsy occurred in the “status,” and these figures are borne out by the returns of the Ewell Colony for Epileptics. Much has been written on the subject, both by British workers and by our Continental confréres, but it is scattered through the literature in isolated monographs, and of late years the interest in the subject seems to have lapsed. The present paper is written with the purpose of inducing someone, more competent than the author, to give us further light on this very interesting condition.