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Pushing back at perceptions of epilepsy: the interplay between medicine and literature in three 19th-century British novels

March 4, 2017

Laura Fitzpatrick New York, United States   If I wished to show a student the difficulties of getting at truth from medical experience, I would give him the history of epilepsy to read. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1891.1 As the nineteenth century dawned, the average Briton still understood epilepsy much in the way his ancient Greek […]