[Prognostication in epilepsy]

Using the method of a sequential analysis, the differential diagnosis of favourable and unfavourable forms of epilepsy was attempted. Preliminary results point to considerable difficulties encountered in predicting the course of epilepsy in view of the shortage and inadequacy of the commonly accepted clinical signs of epilepsy and the absence of a sufficient amount of paraclinical tests. They also indicate that the use of the cytochemical method for examining lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of epileptic patients seems to show promise as a prognostic test.