Excerpt from The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2: Being the Journal of the British Medical Association; July to December, 1876 Case IV. - This patient was a child, two years of age, who had been the subject of epileptiform convulsions since the commencement of dentition: The fits entirely ceased after the commencement of the treatment. The' bromides appear to exert a greater influence upon the so-called convulsions of children than they do upon the more cons firmed epilepsy of adult age. I have rarely found a case of such dis ease which did not speedily yield to small doses of these salts. In the present instance, the shape of the head, and the conformation of the carpal ends of the bones in the forearm, bespoke a rickety constitution. Case V. - This patient, a poorly nourished girl, eighteen years of age, had the closely set eyes and pinched expression of face supposed by some to be diagnostic of an epileptic diathesis. She had been afflicted by weekly epileptic seizures during the past year. She was also troubled with a short cough. Upon examination of her chest, I found the breath-sounds almost cavernous under the left clavicle, with a subsidence of the infraclavicular space, and other signs indicative of loss of lung-tissue, and, I have no doubt, of tubercular disease also. I placed a blister under her left collar-bone, and ordered her to take'n draught of decoction of bark_with twenty grains of the sodic bromide three times daily. She had nevertheless one strong fit during the next week. The dose of the sodium salt was thereupon increased to thirty grains, and from'that time she had no further fits (march 14th. 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.