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The premonitory signs of this disorder are many: drowsiness of mind and sense, unsettled sleep, grim and heavy headache, pallor of face and mouth. The stomach is griped with pain and the urge to vomit, lightness of spirit is flown, and vagrant clouds surround the blinking eyes. And the illness now is such that one collapses in spasm without sense of sight or hearing, snoring and shouting, discharging both urine and semen, the limbs are agitated, there is strident argument. It is paroxysmal phlegm that causes this, filling the ventricles of the brain, inhibiting the vigour of the soul to become its torturer: a subtle, cruel, indignant humour which combats and agitates the brain, entering and leaving it, which causes the epilepsy.
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of Epilepsy. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_29
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