Epilepsy

Hippocrates described epilepsy as a nerve system ailment in his work On the Sacred Disease. Hippocrates refuted the claim that epilepsy is a holy sickness, asserting that he did not believe that the sacred disease is any more divine or sacred than any other disease and that, instead, epilepsy has a nature and a clear cause, just as other diseases do. As a result, the causes of this allegedly sacred sickness are the same as those of all other diseases, each of which has a distinct character. He thought that the disorder started with the accumulation of phlegm in the cerebral veins and can progress to mental sickness.

Some people get epilepsy from birth, while others do so later in life. Hippocrates observed that epilepsy was a leading cause of death in young infants. Epilepsy was deemed "holy" by the ancient Greeks, and Hippocrates thought it demonstrated how the brain could regulate the body. The inability to breathe was brought on by a blockage in the head's veins, which led him to speculate that the brain was the ultimate cause of death. He noted that the primary signs of epilepsy were trembling and cerebral tightness. The aura is one of the early seizure warning indicators that only the patient is aware of. Men simply think it is a heavenly illness because they are unaware and amazed.

To treat patients effectively and correctly, the doctor must recognize and differentiate the true causes of epileptic episodes. One of the most significant and unique contributions to the history of medicine was made by Hippocrates when he claimed that epilepsy was a brain illness rather than a sacred one. Hippocrates altered the basic nature of the scientific and humanistic profile of medicine by linking actual medical knowledge with ethics.