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Epileptic seizures were first described in an Akkadian text from 2000 B.C. Early reports of epilepsy often saw seizures and convulsions as the work of “evil spirits”. The perception of epilepsy, however, began to change in the time of Ancient Greek medicine. The term “epilepsy” itself is a Greek word, which is derived from the verb “epilambanein”, meaning “to seize, possess, or afflict”. Although the Ancient Greeks referred to epilepsy as the “sacred disease”, this perception of epilepsy as a “spiritual” disease was challenged by Hippocrates in his work “On The Sacred Disease”, who proposed that the source of epilepsy was from natural causes rather than supernatural ones.

Early surgical treatment of epilepsy was primitive in Ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian medicine. The 19th century saw the rise of targeted surgery for the treatment of epileptic seizures, beginning in 1886 with localized resections performed by Sir Victor Horsley, a neurosurgeon in London. Another advancement was that of the development by the Montreal procedure by Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, which involved use of electrical stimulation among conscious patients to more accurately identify and resect the epileptic areas in the brain.

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Great work so far. I added a wikilink to evil spirits! Could you try to add links to other terms (ancient greek, akkadian, etc)? Your neurosurgeons also have wiki pages. Can you add your other refs using the tool as well? 2 and 3 are inserted manually. WP:MEDHOW.

Be sure to be consistent with where your citations go in the text. Immediately after the punctuation (no spaces). Your first sentence is correct.1

Thanks for sharing your suggestions. JenOttawa (talk) 16:17, 6 November 2018 (UTC)