Article ID: CBB751154042

Clinical practices: Epilepsy at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London, from 1860 to 1870 (2020)

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In the nineteenth century, epilepsy was established as a curable and treatable condition at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, in London, England. Since its inception, the National Hospital (NH) hosted the work of many physicians who tried to characterise and define epilepsy as a nosological entity. During the first decade of this Institution, different medical traditions, clinical practices, staff, physicians (among them, John Hughlings Jackson, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Jabez Spence Ramskill, and Charles Bland Radcliffe), patients, remedies, devices and publications, began to grant the National Hospital a place in London society as a special medical community. The delimitation of epilepsy at the National Hospital would have an impact on the study and description of the human nervous system at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Eadie, Mervyn J.
Michael Swash
Mant, Madeleine
Matteson, Eric
Shorvon, Simon
Rossor, Martin
Concepts
Hospitals and clinics
Neurology
Medicine
Epilepsy
Physicians; doctors
Neurological diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
London (England)
Great Britain
England
Germany
Cambridge (England)
Hungary
Institutions
Queen Square, London
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
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