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[Nov. 19th, 2011|12:42 am] |
The anticonvulsant properties of potassium bromide were first noted by Sir Charles Locock at a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1857. Bromide can be regarded as the first effective medication for epilepsy. At the time, it was commonly thought that epilepsy was caused by masturbation Locock noted that bromide calmed sexual excitement and thought this was responsible for his success in treating seizures. In the latter half of the 19th century, potassium bromide was used for the calming of seizure and nervous disorders on an enormous scale, with the use by single hospitals being as much as several tons a year (the dose for a given person being a few grams per day).
There would not be a better drug for epilepsy until phenobarbital in 1912. It was often said the British Army laced soldiers' tea with bromide to quell sexual arousal, but as doing so would also diminish alertness in battle it is likely to be an urban legend and similar stories were also told about a number of substances.
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