ABSTRACT
Convulsions which have a tendency to recur at certain intervals, without obvious exciting cause, receive the name of epilepsy, they retard mental development or occasion a retrogression of powers already acquired, and this in proportion to the frequency of their return and the apparent causelessness of their occurrence. Night terrors occur in children between three and eight years of age. They are due to reflex irritation of the brain and probably to digestive disturbance. Children about the age of puberty and older are sometimes given to walking in their sleep called as somnambulism. The early phases of chorea are marked by a condition of psychical unrest. The child begins to get out of control of parents or teachers. stammering is an infirmity which comes with mental culture and self-consciousness, and a highly wrought nervous system. Some children are morbidly self-conscious and evince shyness before strangers. They fear praise as well as adverse criticism.
