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Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Epilepsy

Some time, superstition dominated popular thought and other time, science. In one of the Hippocratic texts written around 400 BCE, it is said that an excess of phlegm in the blood is what leads to seizures. The author also argues against the labeling of epilepsy as a divine disease. Which is kind of amazing considering that was like thousands of years ago.

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