INDEX

ABORTIVES, Use of, as cause of epilepsy, 22 Age-incidence in epilepsy, 17, 18 Air, Fresh, Importance of, 73 Alcohol, The question of, 64 Alcoholic excess in relation to epilepsy, 16, 21-23 ——­ ——­ neurasthenia, 31 Amyl Nitrite, to check the aura in epilepsy, 26 Analyses of proprietary preparations for children, 13 ——­ ——­ purgative medicines, 62 ——­ of secret remedies, British Medical Association, 13, 62, 92 Arson as manifestation of mental epilepsy, 10 Aspirin for post-epileptic headache, 29 Aura, The, 2, 3, 25 ——­, ——­, in Jacksonian epilepsy, 8 ——­, Treatment of the, 25, 26 Auto-intoxication, 68 Auto-suggestion, Value of, 80, 83

BACKACHE in neurasthenia, 32 Baths, Advice as to, for neuropaths, 48, 73, 74 Blaud’s pills, 95 Brain, Morbid changes in, associated with epilepsy, 18, 19 ——­, Structure of the, 20 Bromides, Action of, hindered by salt, 65 ——­ in the prevention of epilepsy, 26 ——­ ——­ treatment of epilepsy, 86-88, 92 ——­ the basis of every epilepsy cure, 92 Bromism, 87 Brooding, harmful to neuropaths, 49, 50

CALM necessary in dealing with nervous children, 106 Carlyle, 90 Character, 123-30 ——­, The basis of, 124 Chyle, The, 57 Chyme, The, 56 Circulation, The, in neuropaths, 73 Circulatory Disturbances in neurasthenia, 33 Clark on frequency of fits during repose, 23 Clark’s statistics of epilepsy, 15 Cleanliness, 73 Climacteric, in relation to hysteria, 41 Clothing for neuropaths, 74 Coddling, Danger of, for nervous children, 103 “Complex”, The, in consciousness, 10, 11 Concentration, Lack of, in neurasthenia, 34 ——­, Mental, Exercises in, 51 Confession, The value of, 40 Conscious Mind, The, 10, 39 Consciousness, Alteration of, in epileptic attack, 3, 4, 6 ——­, Dissociation of, 11 Constipation, 67-70 ——­, Causes of, 67, 68 ——­, Symptoms of, 68 ——­, Treatment of, 68-70 Convulsions, Epileptic. See “Fit” ——­ in alcoholism, 23 ——­ in children, 13 ——­ in diabetes, 23 ——­ in pregnancy, 14 Cooking in relation to digestibility, 58 Country resorts suitable for neuropaths, 47 Criminal acts in psychic or mental epilepsy, 9, 10 Culpepper’s Herbal, 86

DARK, Nervous children’s fear of the, 105 Day-dreaming, 11, 108 Death, 58 Degeneration, Signs of, in epileptics, 17 Dementia, Epileptic, 16 Demonic Influence in relation to epilepsy, 1, 2 Dieting, 63-66 Digestion of foods, 58, 59 ——­ ——­, Time occupied by the, 58 ——­, The process of, 56-59 Digestive troubles in relation to epilepsy, 22, 26 ——­ ——­, neurasthenia, 32, 33 Discipline of the nervous child, 103-106 Dissociation of consciousness, 11 Dostoieffsky’s “The Idiot”, a study of epilepsy, 130 Douche, The cold, for neuropaths, 74 Dreams, 12 ——­, Sex-basis in, 12 Drug habit, The, in neuropaths, 93 Duties and trials of a neuropath’s wife, 132-137

EARS, Care of the, 53 Egoism in relation to neurasthenia, 38 Electrical treatment for neuropaths,