On the influence of profession on the expression of epileptic seizures

Epilepsy is not always expressed by well-known characteristic attacks of the disease - convulsions, loss of consciousness, amnesia, etc. It can rather be said that this is one of the forms of mental illness that is very diverse and capricious in its manifestations.

In this suffering, of great public, legal, and also scientific interest are those forms of it, which, along with ordinary epileptic seizures, are expressed in any special actions, sometimes in quite simple and completely incoherent, and other times in more complex and even criminal ones. One patient, for example, during a conversation suddenly begins to whirl or sing, or, abruptly breaking off the conversation, immediately switches to another topic, another, without any reason, exposes his body, shows the genitals and the like.