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How was Epilepsy regarded and treated during the Renaissance?
I know that in the Shakespearean play Othello had epilepsy, although he is a fictional character.
As did Aristotle and Napolean. . . how did they treat it?
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#2 written by kcpaull 2 years ago
1494:
A handbook on witch-hunting, Malleus Maleficarum, brings a wave of persecution and torture, leading to the death of more than 200,000 women. Written by two Dominican friars under papal authority, the book identifies the presence of seizures as a characteristic of witches.http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/history.html
While this doesn’t mention Aristotle or Napolean, it does mention treatment during the times they lived.
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Generally they thought that the person was possessed by an evil spirit.