The History of Medicine; The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology

doi:10.1056/NEJM199409223311222

Volume 331:817		September 22, 1994		Number 12

The History of Medicine
The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology

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Second edition. By Owsei Temkin. 467 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. $24.95. ISBN 0-8018-4849-0.

Owsei Temkin is professor emeritus of the history of medicineat Johns Hopkins University and former director of the JohnsHopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. His style is directand inviting, and he presents even the most complex materialin a clear and lucid manner. Scholars may quibble over somepoints of interpretation, yet nearly half a century after thefirst edition of this book was published (1945), it remainsunsurpassed. Now available as a paperback reprint of the secondedition (initially published in 1971), The Falling Sicknessis the most authoritative English-language work on the historyof . . . [Full Text of this Article]