Excerpt from Chicago Medical Review, Vol. 6: August 15, 1882 Loss OF weight after epileptic fits. - Dr. C. E. Beevor in the British Medical Journal denies the statement as made in Dr. Gowans work on epilepsy that a loss of weight of from one to twelve pounds is seen after an epileptic seizure. This re minds us of the tale of the French aca damecian. For a long time it was stated that a fish could be immersed in a vessel full of water and no water displaced. The statement passed as Gospel Truth until some one a little less foolish than the rest tried it. The water ran over of course. So it is with many of the statements in medicine bordering on the fabulous. Ap pealing, as they do, to the love of the won derful, they pass current for truth until some incredulous individual takes courage enough to challenge the statement. Query in the above case? Granted a man of average weight, say one hundred and fifty pounds, number of fits per week two and the nutrition of the patient below par as it would be, how long would it take before undertaker would be called. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.