Théodore Herpin: Neglected Contributions in the Understanding of Epilepsy

In contrast to earlier notions of epilepsy, Théodore Herpin considered that when symptoms started in the periphery or the viscera their origin was in the brain, a view later lauded by Hughlings Jackson. His respected book Des accès incomplets did not attempt to deal with disordered physiology but was designed to help physicians to recognise and treat epilepsy early in its course. He described juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and vividly and accurately portrayed many other clinical phenomena of epilepsy.