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1906 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal  
various stigmata are indications that epilepsy is not due solely to excess of uric acid, hyperpyremia or auto-intoxication. Diet may modify or reduce the number of attacks, but it does not cure. It has been claimed that an excessive amount of meat increases the attacks and that a farinaceous diet diminishes them, but a vegetarian diet has not proved satisfactory. Salt starvation is occasionally useful, but there is some risk of bromism. In half a dozen cases he has tried a purin-free diet with
more » ... atisfactory results in diminishing the number of attacks. He allows milk, eggs, butter, cheese, rice, macaroni, tapioca, white bread, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, sugar and fruits, and also articles containing a little purin, -pea meal, malted lentils, potatoes and onions. The foods to be avoided are tea, cocoa, coffee, fish, fowl, meat including
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