>From Aida: This is how infantile convulsion is described if it is not epileptic: INFANTILE CONVULSIONS. DEFINITION.—An infantile convulsion corresponds to a chill in an adult, and is the most common brain affection among children. CAUSES.—Anything that irritates the nervous system may cause convulsions in the child, as teething, indigestible food, worms, dropsy of the brain, hereditary constitution, or they may be the accompanying symptom in nearly all the acute diseases of children, or when the eruption is suppressed in eruptive diseases. -------------------------------------------- On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Paul Eberl <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe the Andreas Eberl (from Zaluzi (Salluschen) #7, Striboro, > Bohemia) > you are referring to is an ancestor of mine (!769-1844). According to my > records, his wife, Anna Schaffer, gave birth to a girl, Barbara, on July 9, > 1821. Unfortunately, Barbara died of 'infantile convulsions' on July 22 of > that year. Incidently, does any one know what 'infantile convulsions' are? > Quite a few of my ancestors died of this. > > Paul Eberl > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >