Auras of somatic and visceral sensibility are commonly experienced as part of the epileptic sequence of events, and their divers varieties have been fully described in a prolific literature on the subject. The "sensory march" of the jacksonian fit and the variegated epigastric aura represent the sensory component of what may or may not terminate in the motor expression of the epileptic attack. These sensory manifestations may include the element of pain, but usually they are not confined to a single somatic segment or focal visceral area. Localized pain, as an isolated phenomenon not associated with somatic convulsive seizures or with other motor, sensory or psychic variants of epilepsy would rarely be considered a form of epilepsy even though its occurrence was episodic and paroxysmal. However, it was conjectured prophetically without benefit of electroencephalography by Wilson1 in 1928. The frequency with which unexplained abdominal pain occurs both in children