Epilepsy is an electrical storm in the brain. Caesar, Alexander the Great, Dostoevsky, Peter the Great, de Maupassant, Pascal, Swinburne, Van Gogh, Paganini, and Byron were all subject to seizures. In early history epileptic attacks were regarded as bodily possession by gods and demons.
Tonight the consultant psychiatrist examines the Sacred Disease which to this day carries stigmas and fears which are quite undeserved.