epileptics

In 1915, Lincoln reported that nearly all of its incoming patients were designated feebleminded; roughly 20 percent were classified as epileptics; and some 27 percent of its overall population was "in various stages of tubercular involvement."

History News Network 2009

This constitutes a numerous class in every large community, and includes the criminal, the drunkard, and the pauper, and many defectives such as epileptics and imbeciles.

The Fertility of the Unfit Rutherford Waddell 1900

It is rather strange that in these recklessly confident lists of eminent "epileptics" we fail to find the one man of distinguished genius whom perhaps we are justified in regarding as a true epileptic.

Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

If people who are blind prefer not to be referred to as a "the blind" and people who have epilepsy quite reasonably don't want to be called "epileptics" then should those of us who are not in these groups get all bothered by their "disgraceful assault on our right to speak as we see fit"?

Autism Hub Sharon 2010

There certainly was some area of overlap between that state of mind and what epileptics report; do they all derive from, or are they connected to, some specific thing neuroscientists can point to?

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Still, I think I've managed to weed out the epileptics in my audience.

The Dyda Dispatches 2009

In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, and in 1907, the Dillingham Commission tightened the medical requirements for admission, dividing physically and mentally “defective” immigrants into three classes: idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, the feeble-minded, the insane, and those subject to tuberculosis or a dangerous disease.

Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: Ellis Island | Edwardian Promenade 2009

What leads me to think she may be right is that the reactions I had to certain medications in my teen years are very much in line with typical epileptic reactions to 'em, which is why they are never ever prescribed for epileptics.

Friday! sihaya09 2009

Genesius, considered a martyr for the faith, is also a patron saint of comedians, dancers, clowns, musicians, stenographers, epileptics and torture victims.

Cathleen Falsani: Acting School Aims To Make Hollywood More Like Holywood Cathleen Falsani 2011

There certainly was some area of overlap between that state of mind and what epileptics report; do they all derive from, or are they connected to, some specific thing neuroscientists can point to?

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011