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Epilepsy Museum By Rycharde Manne In the small town of Kork, in Germany, stands what is probably the only Epilepsy Museum in the world. The museum was founded in 1998 and has recently been moved to permanent premises within the Kork Craft Museum. Kork is close to Strasbourg, but if you can't make a visit their website has a lot of information about epilepsy within art and culture. The website is in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. Their library has over 120 volumes of historical works either about epilepsy or related to it. Their gallery of famous people with epilepsy includes Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Nobel, Van Gogh, as well as the likes of Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Alexander and Lenin. Strangely, does not as yet include Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books. A real mixed bag of saints and sinners! Their Discovery of the Day includes snippets of information of over 1,000 ways epilepsy has been named in the past as well as former "treatments" for the condition. The website does include some medical advice, but I found it an interesting diversion from the mass of medical papers and support forums. This intel first appeared on: http://www.xomba.com/epilepsy_museum

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Contributed by rycharde on December 11, 2008, at 11:57 PM UTC.

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