Epilepsy
Many ancient people thought epileptic seizures were proof of occult powers or oracular gifts, revealing in the epileptic a relationship to spirits of the dead or divine spirits. There is speculation, by some, that St.
Epilepsy, which in earlier times was often used for making predictions about the future, was widely regarded as a holy illness, in which the fortunate sufferer was used as a dwelling by the gods.
In epilepsy a different variation of the aura is encountered. Here instead of the outer aura being alone or more particularly affected (as in hysteria), both auras seem to be correspondingly modified, being unilaterally contracted.
Such spells or charms as are compounded of some edible matter, with magical characters engraven upon them, are successfully given for agues, head-achs, epilepsy, fits of the mother, and the like; ...
Many of these people display physical symptoms similar to epilepsy, gain unusual physical powers (often of healing), have powerful intellectual insights, become holistically elevated into spiritual powers, ...
Thus, extract of opium poppy could be used to control epilepsy. Engelbert of Admont demonstrated the occult properties of natural objects with the example of the magical magnetic properties of iron (Thorndike 1934).
Improves the sense of smell, helps the kidneys, liver and epilepsy.
LAPIS LAZULI
For the heart and vascular conditions, tonsillitis, chest.
Thus Aries, ruling the head and face, was believed to produce smallpox, epilepsy, headaches, baldness, ringworm and apoplexy. Taurus; all diseases of the throat, scrofula, quinsy and wens.
He shirked school with mysterious fainting spells, a "whole bag of tricks" that worried his father who was told by doctor that perhaps his son suffered from epilepsy. He conquered his dizzy spells with an effort of will.
: Epilepsy.com
Kirkbride Buildings (19th C psychiatry: moral education)
The Thought Project by Simon Hoegsberg: waking thought process samples
Limerence ...
The drunkard of a previous life will be born into a family in which drunkenness has left diseases of the nerves - epilepsy and the like. The profligate will be born into a family tainted with diseases which spring from sexual vice.
As Lesley Hall observes, masturbation was "reprobated universally throughout Victorian society," and considered a possible source not just of moral decay but even of epilepsy and insanity.
 See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Spiritual, Death
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