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Epilepsy
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ EPILEPSY  id+ | RECURRENT CONVULSIONS |
            implies INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS thus
  id+ | SEIZE  SEIZURE |
  gr EPILEPSIS      or
     EPILEPTOS      from
     EPILAMBANEIN = TO SEIZE
  med> implies RECURRENT or CHRONIC
               CONVULSIVE DISORDER often
  CAUSING UNCONSCIOUSNESS and
  MEMORY DISTORTION or
  LOSS as in AMNESIA
  also A CONVULSION MAY BE PRECEDED or
  HAVE A PRODROME or
  PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS or
  AURA as per   sug> RADIANCE
  MOOD          sug> EMANATION
  FEELING as in
  sug> PREMONITION

 
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