Falling+sickness
21falling evil — noun Etymology: Middle English falling evil : epilepsy * * * falling sickness or falling evil, = epilepsy. (Cf. ↑epilepsy) …
22sickness — SYN: disease (1). acute African sleeping s. SYN: Rhodesian trypanosomiasis. aerial s. SYN: altitude s.. African sleeping s. Gambian trypanosomiasis, Rhodesian trypanosomiasis. air s. a form of motion s. caused by flying in an airplane. altitude s …
23Love sickness — is a non medical term used to describe mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love.Historically, lovesickness has been viewed as a mental illness brought on by the intense changes associated with love. Ibn Sena, a 10th century… …
24Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
25Thomas Harman — was an Elizabethan author who lived in Kent, England. He is famous for one work, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds . It was first published in 1566, and although no copies of that edition survive, it must have… …
26Ménière's disease — Classification and external resources Inner ear ICD 10 H …
27Epilepsy — Ep i*lep sy, n. [L. epilepsia, Gr. ? a seizure, the falling sickness, fr. ? to take besides, seize, attack; epi upon, besides + ? to take: cf. F. [ e]pilepsie. Cf. {Catalepsy}.] (Med.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls… …
28Caligula — For other uses, see Caligula (disambiguation). Caligula 3rd Emperor of the Roman Empire Bust of Caligula (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek) …
29Julius Caesar — For other uses, see Julius Caesar (disambiguation). Gaius Julius Caesar Dictator of the Roman Republic …
30Russell Edson — (born 1935 in Connecticut) is an American poet. Edson won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974, and has published eleven books of prose poems, one novel, The Song of Percival Peacock, and The Falling Sickness: A Book of Plays. He still lives in… …
