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We wished that we had brought the black, but had it not, and could not get it here, where even its name, pulvis epilepticus, is unknown. But as she got worse continually, spoke with difficulty, and so far lost her hearing, that it was necessary to call out in speaking to her, Baron Grimm sent us his physician. She is still very weak, and is also feverish and delirious.
The layman's mind is usually at sea when it comes to discussing a complicated affection of the nervous system like epilepsy. You are more or less right in your definition of petit mal. But that is the simple form, without complications. In this case there are complications, in my opinion. I should say that this young man's attack was combined with the form of epilepsy known as furor epilepticus."
"I am afraid you are getting beyond my depth, Sir Henry. What is furor epilepticus?" "It is a term applied to the violence sometimes displayed by the patient during an attack of petit mal. The manifestation is extreme violence usually much greater than in violent anger, as a rule."
Sir Henry related the events of that morning for the benefit of the jury, and in sonorous tones expressed his professional opinion that the accused's strange behaviour on that occasion was the result of an attack of epilepsy petit mal, combined with furor epilepticus.
The minor symptoms suggested petit mal, but the act of sticking the knife into the table pointed strongly to the complication of furor epilepticus. That was why I went over to your table to have your assistance in case of trouble." "You feared he would attack one of the guests?"
There cannot be very much the matter with your nerves to have stood the experience of the last few weeks. After we get you out of here, and you have had a good rest, you will be yourself again." "And what about this other thing this furor epilepticus, whatever it is?" asked Penreath, anxiously. "As you didn't murder anybody, you haven't had the epileptic fury," replied Colwyn, laughing.
Erat autem satis formosus, et valens, et vltra modum in verbis et factis maturus, et principalis, et satis diligebatur a suis, magis tamen metuebatur, et erat epilepticus, nemine tamen sciente.
"But Sir Henry Durwood said at the trial that I was an epileptic," persisted the other. "He was wrong about the furor epilepticus, so it is just as likely that he was wrong about the epilepsy.
He would not hear of the possibility of a mistake in his diagnosis of the accused's symptoms, but insisted that the accused, when he saw him at the Durrington hotel, was suffering from an epileptic seizure, combined with furor epilepticus, and was in a state of mind which made him a menace to his fellow creatures.
Sir Henry has conveyed to me his opinion, based on his observation of Mr. Penreath's eccentricity at the breakfast table the last morning of his stay here, that Mr. Penreath is an epileptic, liable to attacks of furor epilepticus a phase of the disease which sometimes leads to outbreaks of terrible violence.
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