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Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies.

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Price ?12 10s 0d., 835 pages.'Man', wrote William Lennox, 'is built to convulse'.The unique status of the ictus has fascinated every reflective physician since Hippocrates reluctantly confessed that epilepsy was a disease unlike any other.This volume seeks to describe those basic properties of brain that are thought to underlie seizures.Every neurologist will find something to read and to

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Price ?12 10s 0d., 835 pages.'Man', wrote William Lennox, 'is built to convulse'.The unique status of the ictus has fascinated every reflective physician since Hippocrates reluctantly confessed that epilepsy was a disease unlike any other.This volume seeks to describe those basic properties of brain that are thought to underlie seizures.Every neurologist will find something to read and to

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Price ?12 10s 0d., 835 pages.'Man', wrote William Lennox, 'is built to convulse'.The unique status of the ictus has fascinated every reflective physician since Hippocrates reluctantly confessed that epilepsy was a disease unlike any other.This volume seeks to describe those basic properties of brain that are thought to underlie seizures.Every neurologist will find something to read and to

Key concepts: Medicine, Epilepsy, Intensive care medicine, Psychiatry

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