Show SCIENCE and your 0 THE TRUTH ABOUT EPILEPSY by Science Features I 1 Perhaps more than any other 1 I disease today epilepsy genera Is stood by the general public Epi pi ore are sometimes discriminated I against by laws lairs forbidding their or attending public schools but more mOl often olen by public opinion which denies enles them jobs lobs nn and a n nol normal mal place in it the com coin Yet scientists know that this disease disease dis dis- ease elSo Is never noer dangerous to anyone but the sufferer tk even when It ends In a n violent i seizure It Is not I contagious and d t Q j r Is no lio more hereditary he than I r G diabetes With 1 the aid of drugs it can cnn be sue sue- 1 cess fully treat 1 ed cd In a large L number of cases Epilepsy ap up patently occurs as 88 a result of some damage to the lower brain which may be brought on by infections or injuries to the unborn child or as the result of ot an accident or war wound At the present time about 75 per cent of nil fill cases can be at attributed at I to a definite physical cause The big news about epilepsy today to to to- day is that with modern drugs doctors doc doe tors can cnn to some degree control the seizures in 80 per cent of all nil cases Of these 50 CO per cent can be completely controlled In certain types of ot epilepsy surgery has been helpful In several cities groups have hn been organized to promote a better public understanding of epilepsy These groups encourage frank and ond andopen andopen open discussion of the disease confident con con- that when the scientific facts are known epileptics will be accorded accorded ac ac- ac corded their rightful place in the community |