Auch an anderer Stelle wird darauf hingewiesen, dass Caesar erst gegen Ende seines Lebens an epileptischen Anfällen gelitten habe.
Bereits römische Autoren bringen Caesars Epilepsie ätiologisch mit einer Zerebralsklerose, an anderer Stelle mit Alkoholismus in Verbindung - Hinweis darauf, dass im antiken Rom neben der "genuinen Fallsucht" auch die symptomatische Epilepsie durchaus bekannt war.
www.epilepsiemuseum.deAt another point Plutarch also points out that Caesar did not have epileptic seizures until towards the end of his life.
The Roman authors already link Caesar's epilepsy to cerebral sclerosis, while others attribute it to alcohol.This would suggest that in ancient Rome a distinction was already being made between the 'genuine falling sickness' and a symptomatic type of epilepsy.
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