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A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy - Alexander Hughes Bennett
Alexander Hughes Bennett
A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy
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II. AN INQUIRY INTO THE ACTION OF THE BROMIDES ON EPILEPTIC ATTACKS. [B]
III. AN INQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS OF THE PROLONGED ADMINISTRATION OF THE BROMIDES IN EPILEPSY. [D]
CATALOGUE OF WORKS PUBLISHED BY H. K. LEWIS 136 GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C.
II.
AN INQUIRY
INTO THE
ACTION OF THE BROMIDES ON
EPILEPTIC ATTACKS.[B]
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Bromide of potassium is generally recognised as the most effective anti-epileptic remedy we at present possess. There exists, however, great difference of opinion as to its method of administration and to the amount of benefit which we may expect from its use. Some physicians who employ the drug after one method come to totally different conclusions as to its efficacy from those who use another. Many believe the remedy to be only useful in certain forms of the disease, and to be very uncertain and imperfect in its action. Others, again, maintain that it is positively injurious to the general health of the patient. These and other unsettled points the following inquiry attempts to make clear.
Epilepsy, like all other chronic diseases, presents great difficulties in scientifically estimating the exact value of any particular remedy; and unless the investigation of the subject is approached with the strictest impartiality, and observations made with rigid accuracy, we are liable to fall into the most misleading fallacies. I believe that these are to be avoided, and facts arrived at, however laborious it may be to the experimenter and wearisome to the student, only by the careful observation and elaborate record of an extensive series of cases. If, in epilepsy, the disease, from its prolonged duration, its doubtful causation and pathology, its serious complications and the many other mysterious circumstances connected with it, offers almost unsurmountable difficulties to any definite and uniform method of treatment and the systematic estimation of the same, its symptoms furnish us with tolerably accurate data upon which to base our observations. The attacks, although only symptoms, may be practically considered as representing the disease, as in the large majority of cases, in proportion as these are frequent and severe, so much the more serious is the affection. The influence of the bromides on these paroxysms is taken in the following inquiry to represent the action of these drugs on the epileptic state.
Before proceeding to detail the facts arrived at, it is necessary briefly to state the method of procedure adopted in treatment. Each case in succession, and without selection, which was pronounced to be epilepsy (all doubtful cases being eliminated), was considered as a subject suitable for experiment. The general circumstances of the individual were studied; his diet, hygienic surroundings, habits, and so on, if faulty, were, when practicable, improved. The bromides were then ordered, and taken without intermission for periods which will subsequently be detailed. The minimum quantity for an adult, to begin with, was thirty grains three times a day, the first dose half an hour before rising in the morning, the second in the middle of the day on an empty stomach, and the third at bedtime. This was continued for a fortnight, and if with success, was persevered with, according to circumstances, for a period varying from two to six months. If, on the other hand, the attacks were not materially diminished in frequency, the dose was immediately increased by ten grains at a time till the paroxysms were arrested. In this way as much as from sixty to eighty grains have been administered three times daily, and, with one or two isolated exceptions to be afterwards pointed out, I have met with no case of epilepsy which altogether resisted the influence of these large doses; and, moreover, I have never seen any really serious symptoms of poisoning or injury to the general health ensue in consequence. Sometimes these quantities of the drugs have been taken for many months with advantage; but as a rule it is preferable, when possible, after a few weeks gradually to diminish the dose and endeavour to secure that amount which, while it does not injuriously affect the general condition of the patient, serves to keep the epileptic attacks in subjection. The form of prescription to begin with in an adult has been as follows:—
℞ Pot. bromid., gr. xv.
Ammon. bromid., gr. xv.
Sp. ammon. aromat., m. xx.
Infus. quassia, ad ℥j
M. Ft. haust. ter die, sumendus.
According to the age