Nice link Blacknad:
I take a little piece;
"Two and a half millennia ago, the Hippocratic author of the monograph On the sacred disease (written to prove epilepsy was not "sacred" but natural) asserted:
Men ought to know that from the brain and the brain alone arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears. Through it ... we think, we see, we hear, and we distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant. By the same organ, we become mad or delirious, and fears and terrors assail us ... and dreams and untimely wanderings ... All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy, but it becomes abnormally hot, cold, moist, or dry, or suffers any other unnatural affection".
All offered to show epilepsy was organic.
When I first began active trial work and had to confront various physicians on their conclusions I bacame very curious about the location of some of our knowledge of things. An example at first was the fingers. I at one time, over dinner, asked a medical specialist if it was not possible that some of the required motions of our fingers was stored in the fingers themselves. I know it sounds silly and possibly a little extra ignorant. It didn't come accross that way to the physician but he rejected the idea with conviction. I think watching a true artist play a really difficult musical score on a piano caused me to get the idea. That and conversations with some amputees wherein the loss seemed to be greater than just the digit or the limb. Just another wasted mind game.
jjw
