Falling+sickness
121throes — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, ache, aching, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, acute pain, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy,… …
122thrombosis — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, angina, angina pectoris, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic… …
123visitation — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, affliction, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bane, blight,… …
124EPILEPSY — a violent nervous affection, manifesting itself usually in sudden convulsive seizures and unconsciousness, followed by temporary stoppage of the breath and rigidity of the body, popularly known as falling sickness ; origin as yet undecided;… …
125brǽccoðu — f ( e/ a) falling sickness, epilepsy …
126gebræcséocnes — f ( se/ sa) the falling sickness, epilepsy …
127epilepsy — (n.) 1570s, from M.Fr. epilepsie (16c.), from L.L. epilepsia, from Gk. epilepsia seizure, from epi upon (see EPI (Cf. epi )) + lepsis seizure, from leps , future stem of lambanein take hold of, grasp (see ANALEMMA (Cf …
128Bibliography — BOOKS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS ◘ Bell, Rudolph M. (1985). Holy Anorexia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ◘ Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. (1988). Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. Cambridge, MA:… …
