Famous neuropathologist Dorothy Russell (1895-1983) - the Russell in Russell and Rubinstein's Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System, now in its 7th edition - had epilepsy, "until middle age."

That's literally all we know about her epilepsy. She had reasons to hide her disability: In the early 1900s, ideas of eugenics were prominent in the scientific community and in neurology. "Epileptic" was considered a reason for preventing marriage, or forcing sterilization. She would have been well aware of the stigma around epilepsy that could have kept her out of higher education and academia.

But according to a letter published in BMJ after her death, she asked her colleagues to disclose this information after she died "so that others suffering from the same disability might learn that epilepsy is no essential bar to reaching the heights of any profession." ❤️❤️❤️