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September 1974, Vol 128, No. 3 >
Article | September 1974

The Use of Bromides for Epilepsy FREE

Robert J. Joynt, MD
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Accepted for publication March 23, 1974.

Reprint requests to the Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 260 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642 (Dr. Joynt).


Am J Dis Child. 1974;128(3):362-363. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1974.02110280092012.
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The use of bromides in epilepsy was an astute discovery by Sir Charles Locock, but was made for the wrong reasons. The impact of the discovery was almost immediate and radically changed the therapy for epilepsy.

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Locock C, in discussion, Sieveking EH:  Analysis of 52 cases of epilepsy observed by the author . Lancet 1:528, 1857;.
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Huette M:  Recherches sur la properties physiologiques et thérapeutiques du bromure de potassium . Br Foreign Med Chir Rev 6:556, 1850;.
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Huette M:  Recherches sur la properties physiologiques et thérapeutiques du bromure de potassium . Med Gaz Paris 21:432-436, 1850;.
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Hunter RA:  Status epilepticus: History, incidence and problems . Epilepsia 1:162-188, 1959;.
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Temkin O: The Falling Sickness , ed 2, revised. Baltimore, John Hopkins Press, 1971;, p 298.
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Jarcho S:  An early mention of the stethoscope (Locock 1821) . Bull NY Acad Med 41:374-377, 1941;.
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Locock C:  Infantile convulsions, Puerperal convulsions , in Forbes J, Tweedie A, Conolly J (eds): The Cyclopedia of Medicine . London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper and Baldwin & Craddock, 1833;, vol 1, pp 477-483.
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Radcliffe CB: Epileptic and Other Convulsive Affectations of the Nervous System . London, John Churchill, 1861;.
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Munk W: The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London . London, Royal College of Physicians, 1878;, vol 3, pp 270-272.

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Locock C, in discussion, Sieveking EH:  Analysis of 52 cases of epilepsy observed by the author . Lancet 1:528, 1857;.
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Huette M:  Recherches sur la properties physiologiques et thérapeutiques du bromure de potassium . Br Foreign Med Chir Rev 6:556, 1850;.
3 +
Huette M:  Recherches sur la properties physiologiques et thérapeutiques du bromure de potassium . Med Gaz Paris 21:432-436, 1850;.
4 +
Hunter RA:  Status epilepticus: History, incidence and problems . Epilepsia 1:162-188, 1959;.
Link to Article
5 +
Temkin O: The Falling Sickness , ed 2, revised. Baltimore, John Hopkins Press, 1971;, p 298.
6 +
Jarcho S:  An early mention of the stethoscope (Locock 1821) . Bull NY Acad Med 41:374-377, 1941;.
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Locock C:  Infantile convulsions, Puerperal convulsions , in Forbes J, Tweedie A, Conolly J (eds): The Cyclopedia of Medicine . London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper and Baldwin & Craddock, 1833;, vol 1, pp 477-483.
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Radcliffe CB: Epileptic and Other Convulsive Affectations of the Nervous System . London, John Churchill, 1861;.
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Munk W: The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London . London, Royal College of Physicians, 1878;, vol 3, pp 270-272.

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