In Lord of the Flies‚ Simon has been characterized in a sort of all seeing‚ knowledgeable creature. Having epilepsy‚ or a similar condition‚ was considered a holy disease‚ that he was connected with god because of it‚ he was purer than the other boys in a sense. The scene after his death really shows that. The passage describes the “clear water [that] mirrored the clear sky” and the flowing of nature around Simon. Had it been one of the other‚ the corrupted and savage boys‚ the flowing of the water
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9‚ No. 3‚ pp. 286–293 0964-704X/00/0903-286$15.00 © Swets & Zeitlinger Epilepsy and Catalepsy in Anglo-American Literature between Romanticism and Realism: Tennyson‚ Poe‚ Eliot and Collins Peter Wolf Epilepsiezentrum Bethel‚ Germany ABSTRACT Epilepsy and catalepsy were not clearly separated in the minds of people in the early 19th century‚ and catalepsy may have been used as a diagnostic euphemism for epilepsy. Tennyson‚ in ‘‘The Princess’’ describes‚ under the diagnosis of catalepsy‚
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use of the Epilepsy Pathway used in an Accident & Emergency Department (AED) at a local Trust 1.0 Introduction: 1.1 Background Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterised by recurring seizures. Different types of epilepsy have different causes. Accurate estimates of incidence and prevalence are difficult to achieve because identifying people who may have epilepsy is difficult. Epilepsy has been estimated to affect between 362‚000 and 415‚000 people in England. In addition‚ there will
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when their daughter Lia had an attack of epilepsy and was quickly taken to Merced’s County Hospital for treatment. Given the fact that Merced’s hospital did not have professional Hmong interpreters to translate medical procedures‚ physicians relied on janitors and nurse’s aide who spoke Hmong. As a result‚ Lia was misdiagnosed many times before a diagnosis of epilepsy was confirmed. In addition to the communication barriers‚ the Hmong’s belief that epilepsy was “evidence that they have the power
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Putnam (1938) developed the MES test and discovered the convulsive effect of diphenylhydantoin using this test[3]. Protection against electroshock induced seizures in mice and rats is used as an indication for compounds which may prove beneficial in epilepsy. The electrical stimulus evokes hind limb extension which can be suppressed by a given dose of anti epileptic medications. The resultant seizures passes through various phase: phase of tonic limb flexion of about 1.5 sec duration followed by phase
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Lia’s American doctors‚ on the other hand‚ treated Lia’s epilepsy as what most educated people would see; as purely as a neurological disorder. Her primary physicians‚ Neil Ernst and Peggy Philp‚ tried their hardest within the limit and fought till the end to make sure Lia gets the best medical care possible. However‚ due to a lack of communication between the family and the hospital‚ the problem wasn’t correctly diagnosed in the first visit. Lia’s medical regimen was very complicated especially
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Epilepsy was something my Aunt Claire had. “Claire’s in a seizure!” was something I heard on a daily basis. So much so that I had lost the fear of seeing her writhing around the floor. It was commonplace‚ a part of our lives. However‚ that Wednesday morning‚ I didn’t realise that at four o’clock that day ‚ I would be the person with… that. Initially I had felt I had been robbed of my independence. Gone were the days where I could run out the door saying “I’m off out”. I remember getting ready for
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of adversity in my life‚ but I never knew it. I only realized this aspect of my life when a family member said it. Epilepsy is something that my family and I have dealt with for about twelve years; since I was about six years old. We never gave up on pushing seizures out of the picture. We have driven three hours to Cincinnati‚ Ohio for the years in which I have known about epilepsy. I have taken countless types of medicines for the issue‚ and recently got the VNS implant. As stated above‚ I have
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How Epilepsy Changed My Life Gilbert Lutes Essay ENGL 121 10/15/12 Writing Assignment When I was just seven-years old‚ I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I’d been having small and frequent seizures my entire life without ever knowing of it until one day when I was shelling walnuts in front of the fireplace. Everything I ever knew was being stripped away from me. I no longer had control over any of the muscles in my body‚ my ability to speak‚ my actions‚ nor my sight. All I could do was relax
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Crystal Riddell Susan Datz PHI 101 June 21‚ 2008 Socrates and Déjà Vu Slide 3- Lived Prior Lives: What happens to the soul when we die? Does the soul come back into the form of another body? How is someone born already knowing certain things? Let’s take a look at some of these questions by first looking at a man named Socrates. Point 1- Law of opposites: Socrates believed that human beings have lived prior lives so to try to explain and validate the point on living prior lives he used the law
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