Theses de epilepsia

...with the greatest difficulty; not a few are never thoroughly cured.

Those escape with the greatest difficulty in whom the disease began in childhood and has persisted even until manhood.

Likewise also those in whom it occurred in the vigor of age, namely from the twenty-fifth until the forty-fifth year.

Thirdly, those in whom no sign appears of the part in which the cause of the disease first originates.

And when an indication of this matter is present, those are more difficult to deliver for whom it takes its beginning from the head; and after that, those in whom it arises in other parts.

But those in whom the evil begins from the feet or hands prove the most curable of all.

Finally, those whom it comes upon in old age primarily die; if they do not perish, they are very quickly delivered of their own accord, and they perceive the least benefit from physicians.

This kind of malady occupies children especially, whom nevertheless Hippocrates asserts are delivered particularly by changes of age, place, and diet.

Whatever epilepsies happen before puberty undergo a change; but whatever happen in the twenty-fifth year, for the most part, die with the patients.

Congenital epilepsy is scarcely ever cured.

From these things it is evident who may be healed more easily or with more difficulty. These things are to be accepted, however, not as always certain, but as true for the most part.