Epilepsy is among the most common scourges afflicting the health of
humankind and perhaps the most terrifying. In one form or another,
it is suffered by one in everyone hundred people on earth, with a
disproportionate prevalence at the early and late extremes of life.
There is nothing sacred or sanctifying about it in spite of Hippoc
rates' terming epilepsy "The Sacred Disease" in a famous treatise.
There is nothing ennobling about it despite its occasional designa
tion as a "noble disorder" by virtue of i ts having affected the
likes of Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar and other persons of
royal lineage. From time to time, epilepsy is hailed as a condition
which is artistically inspirational; Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
dependence on his own personal experience with complex partial
epilepsy as a source of imagery in the transfiguration scenes of
The Brothers Karamazov and as a source of experience in The Idiot
is often cited in this respect. In fact, for all its victims in
human history, epilepsy has been a sad burden which has disrupted
and shortened life, causing suffering and castigation for the
duration of their terrestrial journey."
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