Epilepsy - Pliny the Elder

Mistletoe for epilepsy*. Basil and thyme.

Myrrh mixed with hemp and wine for visions.

[Sorry. I forgot to cite this. It's from the Historia Naturalis. Jackson Heights library.]

*My epilepsy could be construed as "visions" per Pliny's work because they are partial temporal-lobe seizures. I see things in reverse. And upside down. And I've been here before. I am an angel floating in the air. Dizzy.

When I was a child, I would complain about the "Fruit Loops Guys." This was a vision on repeat. I called them, these, my visions, my partial temporal-lobe seizures that I couldn't understand, my "deja-vou'ies."

[update] The deja-vou seizures may be called tonic-clonic or something. No doctor has witnessed one. I have NEVER, EVER been given a firm Dx for my little epilepsies.

Opisthotony - Pliny the Elder

Opisthotony - a disease in which the body is violently curved backward, ref. Pliny the Elder, Historius Naturalis.

Pliny the Elder, Book 28, Chapter 52 "For the painful cramp, attended with inflexibility, to which people give the name of opisthotony, the urine of a she-goat injected into the ears, is found very useful; as also a liniment made of the dung of that animal mixed with bulbs."

[Sounds like 21st Century auto-immune therapy. I drank my urine for a while.]