Epileptic girl suffering a seizure. Votive tablet from 1766      Epileptic girl suffering a seizure.
            Votive tablet from 1766

The picture painted onto the wooden tablet shows a girl with epilepsy who had a seizure as she went to fetch water.

She is lying on the ground like a doll which has been dropped: her body is stiff and her arms are stretched out, and she is frothing at the mouth.

Deutsches Epilepsiemuseum Kork
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