Heracles and epilepsy: the sacred disease
ABSTRACT Epilepsy is one of the most dreaded and terrifying human afflictions. One of the many names it has received was Sacred Disease, during Greek times. Heracles served as a source of the divine connotation that epilepsy received in ancient times, as he was one of the most important demigods in...
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| Main Authors: | Eduardo ORREGO-GONZÁLEZ, Ana PERALTA-GARCÍA, Leonardo PALACIOS-SÁNCHEZ |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Thieme Revinter Publicações
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2020001000660&tlng=en |
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