Word: dilantin
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...William DeVries, the surgeon who had implanted the mechanical organ. Asked Clark: "How am I doing?" Replied DeVries: "Just fine." The words were hardly spoken when Clark suddenly bejan to shudder uncontrollably. DeVries immediately placed Clark on a respirator and then injected him with the tranquilizer Valium and Dilantin, an anticonvulsant medication most commonly used to control epilepsy. During the next 2½ hours, the unconscious Clark suffered intermittent seizures, but the quivering was confined to his left leg and arm. Worried, lis doctors downgraded his condition from "serious" to "critical...
...every 100 is caused by clusters of brain cells, or foci, that discharge electrical impulses paroxysmally. It produces violent seizures resulting in convulsions and unconsciousness, brief staring spells or episodes of uncontrollable rage. Researchers have discovered that most epileptic conditions can be controlled by a drug called Dilantin, which Dr. Frank Morrell, 47, of Chicago's Rush Medical College, believes prevents epileptic discharges from spreading to neighboring neurons...
...operations of various kinds. No fewer than 41 patients enjoyed relief of pain within a few hours, and many got along on three or four tablets a day. Others needed increased doses. In all, 73 patients benefited greatly from carbamazepine alone; four more improved when a modest dose of Dilantin was added...
...cortex. A patch of the cerebral cortex-the brain's command post -gets irritated, and sends out waves of involuntary impulses. On the receiving end, the body muscles respond with spasmodic convulsions-the epileptic seizure. In the average victim, the seizure passes within five minutes. Drugs, among them Dilantin and phenobarbital, eliminate seizures in 50% of cases, reduce them in another...
...epileptics are "backward," 2) nothing can be done for epilepsy. The facts: epilepsy is no bar to genius-history's epileptics, according to present-day neurologists, include Caesar, Mohammed, Napoleon, Dostoevski; some 60 to 80% of epilepsy can be helped or cured by drugs (usually bromides, phenobarbital or dilantin sodium), surgery or change in living habits...