Historical aspects of the
Pharmacological Treatment of Epilepsy
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Summary:
In the present work, we make an historical revision on the different
treatments that had been employed for epilepsy since ancient times
through the present. This article reviews
different periods such as: the believe between the Incas and the Aztecas
that the cause of epilepsy was the action of malignant spirits and the
basements of the treatments in magical and religious methods; the
starting of pharmacological treatment in the XIX century with the use of
bromides, the discovery of the antiepileptic drug phenobarbital by
Alfred Hauptmann in 1912, phenytoin by H. Houston Merrit and Tracy
Jackson Putnam in 1937, through the introduction of new antiepileptic
drugs such as lamotrigine, tiagabine, vigabatrine, levetiracetam, etc.
in the nineties.
Author:
Ecuadorian
magazine of neurology
