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I’m reading The Falling Sickness by Owsei Temkin and it’s fascinating. Across history, epilepsy wasn’t always seen as an illness — many cultures viewed seizures as sacred, meaningful, or a form of connection to something beyond the ordinary.
Only later did medicine redefine it strictly as pathology. It’s powerful to see how the meaning has shifted over time.
— Feb 10, 2026 08:12PM
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Only later did medicine redefine it strictly as pathology. It’s powerful to see how the meaning has shifted over time.
