Treating epilepsy in Italy between XIX and XX century (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Treating epilepsy in Italy between XIX and XX century (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1016/j.jep.2012.11.043 (literal)
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  • Giuseppe Tagarelli ; Antonio Tagarelli ; Maria Liguori ; Anna Piro (2013)
    Treating epilepsy in Italy between XIX and XX century
    in Journal of ethnopharmacology
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  • Giuseppe Tagarelli ; Antonio Tagarelli ; Maria Liguori ; Anna Piro (literal)
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  • 608 (literal)
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  • 613 (literal)
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  • 145 (literal)
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  • 6 (literal)
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  • Istituto di Scienze Neurologiche-CNR (literal)
Titolo
  • Treating epilepsy in Italy between XIX and XX century (literal)
Abstract
  • Epilepsy is a neurological disorder which has been recognized since antiquity. This paper evaluates the prophylactic and therapeutic remedies used by folk medicine to cure epilepsy in Italy. The data has been collected by reviewing written sources of physicians, ethnographers, folklorists between the late nineteenth and mid twentieth century. This approach leads to unearthing of 78 heterogeneous healing methods that have been divided into 16 (20%) magical, 20 (26%) religious and 42 (54%) natural remedies. The latter has been subdivided into 18 (43%) animal remedies, 17 (40%) plant remedies and 7 (17%) other remedies. Religious and magical remedies were used with the conviction that they would be able to provide recovery from epilepsy and to ward off evil spirits which had taken possession of the sick. Interestingly, the herbal remedies highlighted 12 (70%) plants that play or might play an important role with respect to the mechanisms that generate the epileptic seizures. This leads us to reconsider the historical significance of folk medicine, too often it is underestimated owing to its use of ineffective remedies, born of incompetence and superstition (literal)
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