EPILEPSY, RICKETS, AND THE LYMPHATIC CONSTITUTION.
Abstract
The association of idiopathic epilepsy—grand mal—with the lymphatic constitution—persistence of thymus gland, hyperplasia of lymph nodes, and of spleen—has been emphasized of late by Ohlmacher. The association of lymphatism and of idiopathic grand mal has been so strikingly frequent in the autopsies in Ohlmacher's laboratory at Gallipolis, Ohio, that a thorough study of the literature bearing on persistent thymus and on the lymphatic state became necessary. The...