A Pound a Glimpse
Daniel Smith: Epilepsy, 16 November 2017
A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy
by Colin Grant.
Cape, 242 pp., £16.99, August 2016,978 0 224 10182 0 Show More
by Colin Grant.
Cape, 242 pp., £16.99, August 2016,
The End of Epilepsy? A History of the Modern Era of Epilepsy, 1860-2010
by Dieter Schmidt and Simon Shorvon.
Oxford, 208 pp., £39.99, September 2016,978 0 19 872590 9 Show More
by Dieter Schmidt and Simon Shorvon.
Oxford, 208 pp., £39.99, September 2016,
“... between his experience of an aura and the onset of a seizure.) The title of Dieter Schmidt and Simon Shorvon’s book echoes the title of the final chapter of Temkin’s seminal history, ‘The end of falling sickness?’ Falling sickness was the popular name for epilepsy from the second century on. Temkin’s question mark denotes his caution about ... ”
