古希腊时期,人们认为癫癇是上帝、神对人类灵魂的惩罚。公元前95-55年,快乐主义诗人Lucretius在其著作中有一段对癫癇发作的绘声绘色描述:在我们眼前,有这么多的可怜人有如被雷电打击却为重病所袭突然倒地……可怖的发作,终得逞其乖厉溢沫、呻吟、昏迷、战慄而僵直,而挛缩痛苦的胸膛起伏喘息颤动、颤动、疲惫的肢体可怖的恶疾、传遍整个身躯乱其心神如被海水浸袭泡沫在历次风暴的怒潮下外溢经历长时终于低落了气息 Ancient Greece, people think that epilepsy is God, God’s punishment of human souls. In 95-55 BCE, the hedonist poet Lucretius wrote a poignant description of epileptic seizures in his book: There are so many poor people in our writings who have been struck by thunder and lightning and suddenly fell to the ground for serious illness ... Terrible Of the seizures, and finally succeeded in its good and vigorous foam, moaning, coma, trembling and stiff, and contracted painful chest ups and downs wheezing, trembling, tired limb terrible evil, spread throughout the body chaos its heart as the sea water bubble In the previous wave of turmoil in the overflow spillover finally experienced a long time