. How the uncared-for epileptic fares in Illinois; colony care the remedy; a plea for immediate legislative action; how you can help. -. an epileptic is strong, and his sexual instincts are often ab-normally developed. He frequently becomes a menace to womenand children. Some of the stories in this pamphlet give an indication ofthe perils and indignities suffered by girl victims of this dis-ease. Their seizures render them incapable of caring for them-selves at times and the nervous and mental condition oftenbreaks down their normrU restraints. 33. NOT A POLICE STATION BUT AN EPILEPTICCOLONY N
. How the uncared-for epileptic fares in Illinois; colony care the remedy; a plea for immediate legislative action; how you can help. -. an epileptic is strong, and his sexual instincts are often ab-normally developed. He frequently becomes a menace to womenand children. Some of the stories in this pamphlet give an indication ofthe perils and indignities suffered by girl victims of this dis-ease. Their seizures render them incapable of caring for them-selves at times and the nervous and mental condition oftenbreaks down their normrU restraints. 33. NOT A POLICE STATION BUT AN EPILEPTICCOLONY NEEDED. SOME CAN BE CURED; OTHERS RADICALLY HELPED. If our legislators realized that an improvement could bemade in the condition of people afflicted with epilepsy, theymight be readier to appropriate money for the amelioration ofthe disease. Physicians agree that there is an improvableclass. Of this class. says Dr. Frank Billings, in an articleread before the Illinois State Medical Society in 1909, 10 percent or more can be cured by proper care. But even the greatmajoritv who are not classed as improvable can be greatly bene-fited, mentally and physically, by living under properly regu-lated conditions in an atmosphere of sympathy and understand-ing. It has been found that in a colony, regular occupation, se-lected diet and the hygienic life result in a material improvementtaking place in a large majority of the patients living in thecolony. Mental deterioration is often stayed or seems to advancemore slowly, the seizures diminish in freque
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