Download or read book A Disease Once Sacred written by Mervyn J. Eadie and published by John Libbey Eurotext. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a history of ideas concerning epilepsy. The book takes as its points of departure the modern understanding of epilepsy and of epileptic seizures, and uses this knowledge as a yardstick against which to interpret the thinking of the past.