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Epilepsy was mainly considered a mental illness in traditional medicine and the understanding of jurisconsults, attributed to the influence of bodily humors or supernatural events and Jinns. Based on this analogy, the majority of jurisconsults considered epilepsy to be one of the defects that could nullify the marriage contract, comparing it with insanity and believing that epilepsy is a mental illness. However, at the moment neuroscience holds that epilepsy is a neurological and nervous disorder. The present research uses the descriptive-analytical method and recent scientific findings to invalidate the analogy between epilepsy and insanity and contends that epilepsy does not nullify the marriage, unless it becomes a factor in hardship and inconvenience, in which case it can nullify the marriage.

Epilepsy was mainly considered a mental illness in traditional medicine and the understanding of jurisconsults, attributed to the influence of bodily humors or supernatural events and Jinns. Based on this analogy, the majority of jurisconsults considered epilepsy to be one of the defects that could nullify the marriage contract, comparing it with insanity and believing that epilepsy is a mental illness. However, at the moment neuroscience holds that epilepsy is a neurological and nervous disorder. The present research uses the descriptive-analytical method and recent scientific findings to invalidate the analogy between epilepsy and insanity and contends that epilepsy does not nullify the marriage, unless it becomes a factor in hardship and inconvenience, in which case it can nullify the marriage.

1Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

By Sir John Barrow

The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh.<br><br> On 4 April 1789, after five months in Tahiti, the Bounty set sail with its breadfruit cargo. On 28 April 1789, some 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, near Tonga, mutiny broke out. From all accounts, Fletcher Christian and several of his followers entered Bligh's cabin, which he always left unlocked, awakened him, and pushed him on deck wearing only his nightshirt, where he was guarded by Christian holding a bayonet. When Bligh entreated with Christian to be reasonable, Christian would only reply, "I am in hell, I am in hell!"<br><br> The mutineers ordered Bligh, the ship's master, two midshipmen, the surgeon's mate, and the ship's clerk into Bounty's launch. Several more men voluntarily joined Bligh rather than remaining aboard, as they knew that those who remained on board would be considered de facto mutineers under the Articles of War. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Elfrida De Renne Barrow was an American poet and a curator of the Georgia Historical Society. These poems were published between 1922 and 1926 in Poetry, The Reviewer and The Bookman and explore the poet’s independence and relationship to society. - Summary by Newgatenovelist