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| | Seizure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Seizure is often associated with a sudden and involuntary contraction of a group of muscles. | | | Seizures can cause involuntary changes in body movement or function, sensation, awareness, or behavior. | | | After a seizure, aches, pains, headache, lethargy, and a bitten tongue are common.) |
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| | Epilepsy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A doctor who becomes aware that a patient with uncontrolled epilepsy is continuing to drive has, after reminding the patient of their responsibility, a duty to break confidentiality and inform the DVLA. | | | A study of 48 patients who underwent this operation, anterior temporal lobectomy, between 1965 and 1974 determined the long-term success of the procedure. | | | Before surgery is offered, the medical team performs many tests to assess whether removal of brain tissue will result in unacceptable problems with memory, vision, language or movement, which are controlled by different parts of the brain. |
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| | NSE : Epilepsy: Information on seizures and status epilepticus |
| | The seizures may be characterised by a change in awareness as well as automatic movements such as fiddling with clothes or objects, mumbling or making chewing movements, or wandering about and general confusion. | | | Anyone can have a single seizure at some point in their life. | | | The person may fall to the ground with consequent risk of injury but generally recovery is quick. |
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http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/info/leaflets/seizures.cfm
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| | Underlying Causes for Seizures |
| | If your dog is over five years of age and begins to have seizures, or any other unexplained changes in personality or behavior, you may have some reason to suspect an underlying physical cause. | | | Fatigue - The dog seems to tire more rapidly during exercise, and may lack the energy to play as he or she used to. | | | A "wait- and-see" approach only allows the tumor to grow larger and the dog to become more debilitated, which decreases the chance of any treatment being successful. |
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http://www.canine-epilepsy.com/underlying.html
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| | Dogs Anticipate Epileptic Seizures |
| | These seizure-alerting dogs may reduce frequency of epileptic seizures, improving the families' quality of life, he explains. | | | The typical response was licking the child's face, protecting the child, and whimpering; the dogs were never aggressive or harmed the child. | | | Kirton says new research is exploring the abilities of animals to sense human brain activity. |
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http://my.webmd.com/content/article/89/100203.htm
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| | Scientists At Penn Track Epileptic Seizures |
| | The work points toward a method to short-circuit epileptic seizures and convulsions before they strike, through the use of implantable brain devices and medications, according to Brian Litt, MD, author of the study. | | | Litt and his colleagues, on the other hand, relied on the traditional method of measuring brain activity through EEG (electroencephalograpy) readings for five epilepsy patients who were being evaluated for surgery and had therefore stopped taking anti-seizure medication. | | | But those studies have generally been limited in scope -- they concentrate on a period of minutes prior to seizures -- and are further limited by the difficulty of applying an abstract theory to what actually happens inside the brain. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/04/010427071739.htm
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| | Epileptic Seizures Triggered Directly by Focal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. |
| | My mother has been having seizure like reactions to foods, chemicals, weather patterns, perfumes, pain, loud noises, flashing lights, movement in her peripheral vision, etc. for over 10 years. | | | Finally she sent him to a psychiatrist for evaluation for his extreme hyper activity and behavior problems. | | | Using medications that were more commonly used for cardiac disease, they were able to 'relax' these vasospasms and eventually retrain them. |
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http://www.infoventures.com/emf/currlit/bu12462.html
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| | Can Dogs Be Trained To Detect Epileptic Seizures |
| | As it turns out, the ability to alert humans that a seizure is about to occur may have less to do with sense and more to do with sensibility. | | | Dalziel on the study of seizure-alert dogs for the veterinary school, said that of all the theories, it is most plausible that some dogs can smell a seizure coming. | | | Dalziel’s study found two factors to be consistent in all the dogs reported to have alerting behavior: a close bond with the owner, and an "alert" disposition. |
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http://www.workingdogs.com/vcepilepsy.htm
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| | CNN - Brain 'pacemaker' may prevent epileptic seizures - August 25, 1999 |
| | Nolan Hutain places a magnet across his chest to lessen the severity of a seizure. | | | The vagus nerve stimulator has a generator similar to those used in heart pacemakers. | | | When Nolan places a magnet across his chest, an episode has a shorter duration and seems less intense, says Dr. Mary Kay Dyes, a neurologist. |
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9908/25/brain.pacemaker/index.html
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Dogs can predict epileptic seizures |
| | Forty-two percent of the families with both an epileptic child and a dog said their dogs responded to seizures. | | | Gregory Holmes, a neurologist at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, says the dogs could be detecting a change in smell. | | | Kirton therefore plans to do another study in a more clinical setting, which will also try to determine how these dogs predict seizures. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6047
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| | Seizure Disorders In Childhood |
| | Seizures in neonates, infants, and toddlers most frequently result from perinatal brain injury, congenital central nervous system malformations, and metabolic derangements. | | | Epilepsy represents the most common serious neurologic problem affecting children, with an overall incidence approaching 2% for febrile seizures and 1% for idiopathic epilepsy. | | | Childhood seizures represent paroxysmal clinical events characterized by abnormal, excessive discharges originating from populations of cortical neurons and resulting in some clinically evident alteration of function or behavior. |
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http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/pedneuro/epilepsy.htm
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| | Dogs may predict epileptic seizures in children |
| | The main goal was to study how the family dog behaved around the time a child had an epileptic fit. | | | a Sheltie-Spitz cross, sat on a toddler before a seizure to prevent her from standing; | | | Would you like to register for our weekly NO-NONSENSE Medical News Letter? |
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http://www.news-medical.net/?id=2669
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| | Adaptive Electric Field Control of Epileptic Seizures |
| | This behavioral strategy must, therefore, be tailored to the patho-physiological condition. | | | In 35 sessions subjects learned to regulate their cortical potentials with the help of a biofeedback device. | | | Most of these patients suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy which is known to be resistant to drug management. |
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http://www.comdig.org/send_article.php?id_article=3346
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| | News - Outpatient Diagnosis Of Non-Epileptic Seizures |
| | In 14 of the 30 patients (47 percent), an additional inpatient video-EEG was avoided, the researchers say. | | | Suggestion techniques were based on hyperventilation and photic stimulation. | | | Further analysis showed a significant effect of suggestion in those patients who had a history of previous events in medical settings. |
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http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256B880072F77C
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| | Arthritis Issues - Epileptic Seizures Not as Dangerous as Thought |
| | Neurologist and lead investigator Dr. Elson So said epilepsy patients, along with families, employers, school officials and others, need to have an accurate understanding of the injury risk associated with epileptic seizures. | | | Ignoring the risk of injuries may have disastrous consequences for some people with epilepsy. | | | FRIDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- There's only a low risk of major injury from epileptic seizures, so most people with epilepsy don't need to restrict their daily activities to avoid injury, says a Mayo Clinic study. |
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http://www.arthritisissues.com/ms/news/522251/main.html
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| | Epileptic seizures, Eastern Carolina |
| | Partial seizures are usually treated with medications, although surgery to remove the affected area of the brain or interrupt certain pathways is an option for some people. | | | A seizure may affect a person's muscle control, movement, speech, vision, or awareness (consciousness). | | | Partial seizures may affect awareness and only one side or part of the body or may also involve the entire body. |
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http://www.uhseast.com/156054.cfm
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| | Epileptic seizures can be anticipated by non-linear analysis - Nature Medicine |
| | Epileptic seizures can be anticipated by non-linear analysis - Nature Medicine | | | Epileptic seizures are a principal brain dysfunction with important public health implications, as they affect 0.8% of humans. | | | The ability to anticipate the onset of seizures in such cases would permit clinical interventions. |
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http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v4/n10/abs/nm1098_1173.html
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| | NSE : Information on epilepsy: Non-epileptic seizures |
| | What happens to the person during their NES can vary. | | | This may affect the person's awareness and their behaviour. | | | The term 'seizure' describes a sudden, short event where there is a change in a person's awareness of where they are or what they are doing, their behaviour or their feelings. |
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http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/info/leaflets/factsnea.cfm
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| | What causes epileptic seizures? : Neurological conditions |
| | Seizures can occur at the time of a stroke or many years later. | | | There is also an increased incidence of epilepsy in relatives of those with a seizure disorder. | | | Seizures can also occur in the normal nervous system when its metabolic balance is disturbed. |
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http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/1736
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| | News - Non-Epileptic Seizures Have Root In Abusive Past |
| | Among these patients, 9 (60 percent) completed at least 58 percent of the treatment sessions. | | | Self-reports of seizures were highly correlated with paranoid ideation, and both dissociative phenomena and a history of sexual abuse was common among the patients. | | | When patients were told by their health care providers that their seizures were not true epileptic events, they experienced a resurgence of the feelings they had associated with not being believed when they reported being sexually abused as children. |
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http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256C5C006BED92
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| | Shocks keep epileptic seizures at bay |
| | Wege had tried medications, but they left her light-headed, disoriented and seeing double. | | | So when a doctor told Wege about VNS therapy, which often helps epilepsy patients who don’t have much luck with medication, she jumped at the chance. | | | The shocks are believed to condition the brain to react better to the interruptions in brain function that are common during seizures, according to the Epilepsy Treatment Center. |
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| | The Wavelet Digest :: View topic - Preprint: EEG time-frequency analysis during epileptic seizures |
| | We further conclude that the clonic phase starts as a response to brain activity that can be only established when brain oscillations are slow enough to be followed by the muscles. | | | This information was correlated with clinical findings observed in the video recordings. | | | We conclude that the Short Time Fourier Transform is very useful for a quantitative analysis of epileptic seizures, especially when muscle artifacts contaminate the recordings. |
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| | Electrical Stimulation Stops Epileptic Seizures |
| | UVa Health System Doctors Study Surgery to Stop Epileptic Seizures | | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with epilepsy, especially those who don't respond to anti-seizure medication, may one day be helped with a kind of brain pacemaker. | | | Continue to Electrical Stimulation Stops Epileptic Seizures on Reuters: Health. |
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http://www.medical-buzz.com/electrical-stimulation-stops-epileptic-seizures,49693.html
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Television (Fits to Be Tried) |
| | 'seizure clip' is the original demo of Pokemon. | | | Children with seizure disorders (about 700 of them) went into seizures and had to be hospitalized because of their condition triggered by the clip. | | | Later, researchers who studied the Pokemon phenomenon reported in the Southern Medical Journal that only a small fraction of the 618 children treated were actually diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy. |
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http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/seizure.htm
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| | Epilepsy treatment for epileptic seizures on MedicineNet.com |
| | Many drugs are available to treat epilepsy, several of which have only recently been released. | | | The majority of epileptic seizures are controlled through drug therapy, particularly anticonvulsant drugs. | | | The choice is most often based on other factors specific to each patient, such as which side effects can be tolerated by the patient, other illnesses they may have, and which delivery method is acceptable. |
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http://www.medicinenet.com/epilepsy_treatment/article.htm
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| | Virtual Naval Hospital: General Medical Officer Manual: Clinical Section |
| | Epilepsy is a condition with recurring epileptic seizures. | | | If the seizure is due to alcohol withdrawal, it may be wise to treat the patient with a benzodiazepine drug. | | | However, drug levels are only adjuncts and guidelines in managing therapy, they are not targets that can predict drug efficacy or side effects. |
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| | As pseudo-epileptic seizures can be characterized by their dissociative nature, a reasonable hypothesis is that patients with pseudo-epileptic seizures are more responsive to hypnosis than patients with epileptic seizures. | | | In eight out of nine patients (of the original 13 patients, three patients dropped out and one patient was not evaluable), the experimental diagnosis corresponded with the clinical diagnosis. | | | Measurements of hypnotizability among seven patients with epileptic seizures and six patients with pseudo-epileptic seizures supported this supposition. |
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| | E - Epilepsy and Seizure |
| | This decision just has to be made on a patient by patient basis. | | | Viral illness, fungal diseases, trauma, vascular disease or other problems can also lead to seizures by direct effects on the brain. | | | Kindling is when the seizure focus in the brain develops strong enough pathways that it makes it easier for the seizure to occur -- almost as if the brain "learns" to seizure. |
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http://www.vetinfo.com/dencyclopedia/deepilepsy.html
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| | MedlinePlus: Seizures |
| | Seizures and Epilepsy: Hope through Research (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) | | | The primary NIH organization for research on Seizures is the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | | | Atlas of the Body: The Brain -- Lobes (American Medical Association) |
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| | New Blood Test May Detect Epileptic Seizures |
| | Researchers found the test was useful at differentiating epileptic seizures from those caused by mental problems. | | | Researchers say epileptic seizures are thought to affect the hypothalamus and may alter the release of prolactin, causing levels of the hormone to rise. | | | Therefore, the guidelines say the test may be appropriate as a secondary test, especially in cases when EEG (electroencephalography, a technology used to analyze seizures) is not available. |
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| | epileptic seizures in children - General Practice Notebook |
| | The information provided herein should not be used for diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. | | | Oxbridge Solutions Ltd® is an independent company owned by the authors which does not receive income from any other organisation or individual. | | | Epilepsy is defined as the tendency to continuing seizures. |
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| | Epilepsy Information Center |
| | Risk of seizures in different conditions - NL | | | Seizures in special populations - elderly, medical illness - Postgrad Med | | | Review of Epilepsy treatment - BMJ Jan 99 |
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| | Efficacy of a 1- to 3-day ambulatory EEG in recording epileptic seizures |
| | The duration of an ambulatory electroencephalogram (aEEG) necessary to record epileptic seizures was studied in neurological patients. | | | Symptomatic attacks without simultaneous EEG discharges were exhibited in 27% of the epileptic patients. | | | Our conclusion was that, in patients exhibiting epileptic seizures during the aEEG recording, the diagnosis will be confirmed by a 2-day recording in the vast majority of the cases. |
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| | Can epileptic seizures be predicted? |
| | The Bonn researchers argue that this identification and study of the pre-seizure state in the brain should result in a better understanding of how seizures come about and might suggest new ways (chemical, electrical, or psychological) of preventing seizures. | | | In some patients they see a decrease in the correlation dimension which, they believe, corresponds to the sort of increasing synchronization in the pathological firing of neurons that (above a critical level) leads to a seizure. | | | At the Clinic of Epileptology at the University of Bonn (located on Sigmund Freud Strasse), one of the largest centers for epilepsy surgery in the world, doctors must locate the source of seizures as accurately as possible so as to minimize post-operative loss of brain activity once the offending tissue has been removed. |
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| | Case 225 --Neuropathology Case |
| | Four months later the same symptoms were accompanied with partial, and six months later with generalized epileptic seizures.Upon admission the patient complained of diffuse headache and some difficulties in finding words. | | | This 43-year-old man presented with a "seizure" of dizziness, associated with difficulty in walking and performing simple movements. | | | Neurological and neuropsychological examinations did not reveal any motor, sensory, cognitive deficits, nor speech disturbances. |
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http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case225.html
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| | International League Against Epilepsy |
| | The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) is the world’s preeminent association of physicians and other health professionals working towards a world where no persons' life is limited by Epilepsy. | | | Its mission is to provide the highest quality of care and well-being for those afflicted with the condition and other related seizure disorders. | | | To improve services and care for patients, especially by prevention, diagnosis and treatment |
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http://www.epilepsy.org
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| | What are pseudo-epileptic seizures? - Neurology - DoctorNDTV |
| | Pseudo-seizures on the other hand are thought to be caused by many different mechanisms although the exact cause is perhaps not well defined. | | | Since the causation is believed to be different, a person could have both the types. | | | How can a person suffer from both genuine as well as pseudo epileptic attacks. |
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| | Atlas of Epileptic Seizures and Syndromes |
| | This practice-oriented manual gives you helpful and stimulating guidelines on how to classify epileptic seizures and epilepsy syndromes in individual patients. | | | EEG tracings are correlated with clinical features, etiology and specific diagnosis of the type of seizure. | | | We are delighted to present to you the brand new Atlas of Epileptic Seizures and Syndromes. |
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| | Responses - Epileptic Seizures |
| | We would typically place a patient like this in the hospital and record the seizures on a Video/EEG and then develop a plan to control them. | | | Samuel R. Rosenfeld, M.D., MDA Clinic Director, Orange, CA It is not routine for children with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) to have seizures, especially to this degree. | | | He is now beginning to have epileptic seizures, 5 or more per day of about 15 to 30 seconds in duration, and taking Tegretol 50 mg three times/day. |
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http://www.mdausa.org/experts/question.cfm?id=3364&disease=56
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| | Remedy for Epileptic Seizures? Healing Epilepsy Testimonial using Vitacel GH7. |
| | Medication was of little value and we grew more concerned with each passing day, with hopes that somewhere, some day, someone had the answer to his epileptic seizure problem. | | | These epileptic seizures and symptoms went on for nineteen years. | | | I am most happy to report that he has not had any more epileptic seizures since. |
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| | Building Wellness WIth DMG - DMG book, research, and facts |
| | Balch and Balch recommend DMG for over 48 health conditions in their best-selling book Prescription for Nutritional Healing. | | | Research suggests that DMG is one of the most important nutrients that you can take. | | | This book tells the fascinating story of DMG and how this multi-functioning nutrient has the power to fight disease, ward off secondary infections, give you greater energy and stamina, improve sexual function, decrease epileptic seizures, and improve brain function. |
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| | Edward Lear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | From the age of seven until the time of his death he suffered frequent grand mal epileptic seizures, as well as bronchitis, asthma, and in later life, partial blindness. | | | He had a lifelong ambition to illustrate Tennyson's poems; near the end of his life a volume with a small number of illustrations was published, but his vision for the work was never realised. | | | In 1846 he published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularise the form. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear
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