Excerpt from Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, Vol. 2: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World The recurrence of the fits may be due (1) to incomplete e cision of the focal irritation (2) to the neighboring centres having become irritable and unstable like the original focus; (8) to a habit of discharge being established in the other hemisphere, or possibly in the lower centres. If the cause were the last men tioned, it would follow that the Operation, to be successful, would have to be performed before what we might call an epileptiform habit had become established. If the cause were the second mentioned, the operation of excision would appear to Offer little prospect of success, except at the expense of a considerable de gree of paralysis. The question, then, will arise whether, if the epileptiform fits can only be cured by the establishment of exten sive hemiplegia, aphasia, or other great impairment of faculty, the operation may not be considered as a greater evil than that for the cure Of which it is intended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.