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Robert H. Wilkins, MD; Irwin A. Brody, MD

Arch Neurol. 1970;22(2):183-184.

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JOHN Hughlings Jackson (1835 to 1911), the father of British neurology, had a special interest in focal motor epilepsy. As a reporter for the Medical Times and Gazette and later as a physician at the London Hospital and the National Hospital in Queen Square, he studied patients with this disorder and continued to ponder its meaning. His interest was reinforced by the fact that his wife suffered from focal convulsions before her early death.^1-4

Proceeding from his analysis of focal epilepsy, Jackson was then able to formulate a series of remarkably astute philosophical inferences about the organization and function of the entire central nervous system.^5-16 These interpretations were based entirely on clinical observation and reasoning; he left the experimental proof of his assertions to others.

Epilepsy had been studied by physicians for more than 2,000 years before Jackson's time, and focal seizures had been described occasionally as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Durham, NC

From the Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, NC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 11, 1969; accepted Sept 13.

Reprint requests to the Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27706 (Dr. Wilkins).

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