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Quotation from Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle
“for sleep is like epilepsy, and, in a sense, actually is a seizure of this sort”
Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Sleep and Sleeplessness, Part 3, trans. J. I. Beare (1908)
Explaining why infants sleep so much and why epileptic seizures often begin in sleep, Aristotle links both to vapour rising to the head.
Citation: "for sleep is like epilepsy, and, in a sense, actually is a seizure of this sort" — Aristotle, Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Sleep and Sleeplessness, Part 3, trans. J. I. Beare (1908). (id aristotle-parva-naturalia-q4)
