Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-11-30 | Page 13 | Association to Study Epilepsy

; ASSOCIATION TO STUDY EPILEPSY i Will Consider Means to Cure Disease and Pro- vide for Sufferers. NEW YORK. Nov. 30-The fifth annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics was held yesterday at the Academy of Medicine. Dr. W. P. Sprat-ling Sprat-ling of Sonyea, N. Y., president of the association, presided. The reports read from various States showed that great progress had been made In the care of epileptics. 1'ntil recent eas .they were thrust into Insane asylums,, asy-lums,, hospitals, prisons, poorhouses and other 'kindred institutions that would take themi The first cottage for epileptics was huMtfm 1867 at Sonyea. and now State afte8tate has taken up the matter, and the Kctims of this terrible malady can get treatment the same as patients suffering ' fr3pi -other diseases. ttfr are 10,0M epileptics In the notth-hslf notth-hslf of the United States, of which nJTmber about 14,000 are in New York. Ilr. L M. Perry of Parsons. Kan., said tils State already had spent $300,000 on a colony of epileptics. He said that any epileptic in the State of Kansas could obtain admittance to the village regardless regard-less of financial condition. The main objection ob-jection is to relieve the insane asylums of epileptics. Other physicians from Texas. Indiana. Virginia and Pennsylvania described the progress made in the last few years with their epileptic colonies and their beneficial benefi-cial results to the patients. ,