The major advances in epilepsy in the 20th century and what we can expect (hope for) in the future

The management of many of these cases of chronic convulsive disease is a task of difficulty, requiring the utmost patience and perseverance on the part of both the patient and the physician.The old power of casting them out has gone from the earth, and it is only the study of their origin and history, and careful experiment in their treatment, that we can hope to regain over them such power as may still be possible to man.And the present generation has witnessed an advance in the treatment of these diseases equaled in perhaps no other branch of therapeutics.Thanks to the influence of one drug and its combinations, hundreds of epileptics have been cured, and thousands are leading useful lives who would otherwise have been incapacitated by the disease.Although the condition of many sufferers is still gloomy enough, it is not now without hope, and to them also, we may surely trust the progress of the recent past is the dawn of a brighter day.