Interesting... Herakleia Nosos?

I came across this--

Herakleia nosos, morbus herculeus, mal d'hercule - epilepsy has been known as the 'Hercules sickness' for over 2000 years. This name for the disease originates from the opinion that the demigod Hercules, the son of the god Zeus and the human Alcmene, suffered from epilepsy. The 'proof' of this is always stated to be the part in the fifth main scene of Euripides' play Hercules furens, in English Madness of Heracles, where Hercules (who is just about to bring Zeus an expiatory sacrifice) is described with the following words:

'And everyone looks at the man who has been struck dumb and is completely changed, whose reddened eyes roll, from whose beard froth drips... He bears his body and struggles to breathe'...

(Source)

Did not know this! I had no clue Herakles was associated with epilepsy. It doesn't makes sense to me, though, as an explanation for his madness. And a play is not enough proof for me to latch onto the idea. I know those with complex partial seizures have their consciousness altered, but they don't go homicidal and crazy. Many may make automatisms (lip smacking, repetitive movements, etc), but...it doesn't really fit Herakles. Also, while people can have seizures (from injury, fever, Rx, etc) and not have epilepsy, to say Herakles was epileptic implies he had recurrent seizures (and if alive today, would have been put in Rx to control them), which doesn't fit with mythology and what we know of his life. Interesting, though, how mythology weaves itself into so many facets of our lives.