To those that know me."
"Macbeth," Act III.

Starr's table shows that combinations of all types of epilepsy are
possible, and that mental epilepsy is rare:

Grand mal 1150
Grand and petit mal 589
Petit mal 179
Jacksonian 37
Mental 16
Grand mal and Jacksonian 10
Grand mal, petit mal and Jacksonian 8
Grand mal and mental 3
Grand mal, petit mal and mental 6
Petit mal and mental 2
Fits by day only 660
Fits day and night 880
Fits by night only 380

The majority of victims have attacks both by day and by night. Of 115,000
seizures tabulated by Clark, 55,000 occurred during the day (6 a.m. to 6
p.m.) and 60,000 by night.

The _usual course_ of a case of epilepsy is somewhat as follows: the
disease begins in childhood, the first convulsion, about the age of three,
being followed some twelve months later by a second, and this again by a
third within a few months. Then attacks occur more frequently until a
regular periodicity--from one a day to one a year--is reached after about
five years, and this frequently persists throughout life.