She had set the dog on his feet and was wagging her forefinger at him, a procedure which seemed to rouse all the latent epilepsy of his nature.

There Rädler was diagnosed as suffering from "secondary dementia" (what may be now termed schizophrenia), however it was more recently suggested that his illness could have been latent epilepsy.

Though the exact mechanism of its anti-epilepsy effect is not clear, several studies have shown that BmKAEP can inhibit coriaria lactone-induced epilepsy in rats by prolonging the latent epilepsy period, relieving the degree of seizures and shortening its average duration, at a pharmacological dosage of only 0,057 g/g.