An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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O’CONNOR, William

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Cases of epilepsy, associated with amenorrhoea and vicarious menstruation, successfully treated with the iodide of potassium.

Lancet, 1, 525, 1857.

O’Connor was apparently the first to use potassium bromide for the treatment of epilepsy.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Epilepsy