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Show Medical Triumph. Tho successful operations on the brain of epilepsy pntlents performed by Di. Walter E. Dandy of Johns Hopkins university, nnd by Dr. Curtis Cur-tis Bumham have now been verified by n number of other surgeons. When a definite set of muscles are nffected In the epilepsy spasms, -elzures, at-I at-I tacks, fits, convulsions or loss of con-i con-i sclousness, ns It may be called, the ! disease can often be traced to some fluid matter, scar or cyst which covers cov-ers tho section of tho brain whose nerve fibers lend to tho tongue or fingers. In other words, tho flrat cure on record of an epileptic who lost i consciousness during the attack was triumphantly brought to pass by Doctor Doc-tor Dandy. |