The Falling Sickness : A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology

Professor Owsei Temkin
Johns Hopkins University Press
9780801848490
0-8018-4849-0

Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work.

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by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover edition.