STUDIES ON EPILEPSY

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Abstract
Several years ago, a group of physicians under the leadership of Dr. Frederick Tilney, made a critical study of the literature of epilepsy. Frequent meetings were held, and the published papers on the subject were reviewed and discussed. The more the literature was studied, the clearer it became that the nature and cause of the symptoms we call epilepsy, were lost in a maze of theories and contradictions, and that, as a basis for advance, careful research into the causes, nature and site of convulsions was necessary. Only when this is done shall we have a real basis for biochemical research and for logical clinical investigations into the etiology of epilepsy. With this conclusion came the conviction that the investigation must begin with the simplest problems of the convulsive attack, and gradually advance to the more complex. The following report represents the work along these lines thus far done, but

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