Disclose in our environment the notion of plurality of epilepsy, raise a better study of these patients improving their condition and their future, arouse the curiosity of scholars, because in the course of this work we will expose many unknowns that still exist in the genesis and treatment of this disease, which need investigation; gather as comprendiosa which in recent times has come to our knowledge of pathogenesis and treatment of epilepsy, such is the longing we have had to make this study suggested moments of earnest scientific meditation contemplating the protean manifestations of this disease and therapeutic uncertainties, appreciated very closely by our particular interest in nervous and mental diseases and the number of years that we've practiced at the Hospital for the Insane and of which we have not departed yet.

The role of infections in the genesis of essential epileltsia called, has been held since ancient and contemporary authors as Dercum not hesitate to say that "the role of infections in the production of epilepsy is conclusive evidence." The epileptogenic power, however, has not been understood in all the same manner.

Epilepsy is not a unique disease entity, as once he believed. The breakup initiated by Bravais and JACKSON, and continued progress that has been made in the domain of the causes of seizure processes has called essential epilepsy disappeared, to become well qualified all cases symptomatic. No epilepsy but epilepsies. In cases of essential epilepsy titled The analysis finds descriminativo pathogenetic factors, which must be accepted as the cause of pathic state, because clinical observation, the data provided by modern methods of etiological research and therapy, attend together to try their performance morbígena.

The statistics resulting from the array and accurate facts, offer the study of the elements involved in the complicated process of psychiatric phenomena. solid handle for searching the interlocking who binds their determinants. The application of this approach to mental medicine is not, moreover, but a partial manifestation of his value as a tool for assessing the reality within the scientific canons. So we believe necessary and appropriate to outline some comments on the figures supplied us compare the figures contained in the 1896 and 1916 statistics, to derive numerical variants alienated held at the Hospice of Insanos Lima, take their etiology as current conditions - that the etiologic in other periods of our history factors have been brilliantly treated by our master the Dr.HERMILIO VALDIZAN - etiology take on current conditions and outline the most appropriate prophylactic attitude...