TREATMENT OF EPILEPTIFORM ATTACKS CAUSED BY CALCIFIED ADRENALS

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History.—I. P. S. F., a boy aged 11 years, when seen in 1937, gave the history of having suffered from epilepsy since he was 2 1/2 years old. The convulsions first came on shortly after an ordinary attack of measles suffered at that time. For a few years they were very frequent but gradually diminished in number until they averaged only two to three attacks a month. These convulsions were not preceded by an aura. An upset stomach or an oral temperature of 100 F. or more, from whatever cause, was very sure to bring on an attack. No individual article of diet, condition of the bowels or nervous strain was responsible for these convulsions. They began spontaneously, like lightning from a clear blue sky, apparently without cause, as on one occasion when, after spending a prolonged afternoon at the movies, he ran a block to his car only

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