Abstract
Convulsions in Infancy and Childhood
Highlights
Be the result of injuries to the brain during parturition
In other children s%ht fits frequently recurring without apparent cause and with defective mental development suggest some failure of development of the higher centres and carry an anxious prognosis
One question arising in connection with convulsions in childhood is the relation of these to epilepsy
Summary
Be the result of injuries to the brain during parturition. Even a unilateral distribution of the convulsions is not inconsistent with a reflex causation, and the same may be said of a subsequent slight paresis, though a definite hemiplegia necessarily suggests organic disease. In these latter circumstances it is a difficult matter to distinguish them from reflex convulsions due, perhaps, to gastro-intestinal irritation. In each the convulsions may be more or less one-sided and may ^e attended with coma and retraction of the head. Syphilitic softening of the brain cortex is apt to Produce a series of slight one-sided convulsions, each accompanied by momentary unconsciousness or a temporarily dazed expression.
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