10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAINT VITUS' DANCE»
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Encyclopedia of Family Health
Questions and Answers My son had Saint Vitus' dance as a child, and since then
he has not been successful in school or at work. Could the disease have
damaged his brain? No. Although during an attack there are usually some mental
...
David B. Jacoby, R. M. Youngson, 2004
Fourteen-year-old Melanie must come to terms with her mother's incurable illness and the possibility that she herself may develop the disease.
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Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into ...
In France, it was called danse de Saint-Guy and in Germany Saint John's dance
or Saint Vitus' dance (chorea Sancti Viti in Latin). The latter term derived from the
fact that a magistrate in Strassburg ordered the sufferers of the dancing mania to
...
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A cyclopedia of domestic medicine and surgery
SAINT VITUS' DANCE, or CHOREA, or Chorea Sancti Viti. This disease is a
peculiar kind of convulsion, often attended with the most irregular and ludicrous
motions, as if acted to the chorus of a song, and hence its name. It has been
called ...
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Cases Of The Epilepsy, Hysteric Fits, And St.
Vitus's
Dance, ...
Saint Vitus Dance, and Lcianesr of 'be left Side. Lz'z. Cbamberr, aged eleven
Years and half, was about'four Months ago seized on a sudden in the Evening
with a working os her Eyes, left Hand and Leg, which increasEd daily, to such a ...
6
Black Sabbath and Philosophy: Mastering Reality
They don't call it Saint Vitus Dance for nothing. You might even think the dance
was pretty good. Of course, from the subjective perspective of the infected person
there is nothing artistic or beautiful about it. The movements are not intended as ...
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Lyrical Affairs, Poetry, and Parables Through the Years
Saint. Vitus. Dance. They put red shoes on their feet with a cross above and
underneath. Sprinkled them with holy water, and named it Saint Vitus Dance.
Young and old dancing in the streets with pipes and drums to beat. And on a
platform in ...
... sheet-metal workers Special Devotions Once invoked against lethargy;
poisonous animal bites; fear of water; and Saint Vitus's Dance, a nervous
disorder Connections with Other Saints One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
Venerated From Italy ...
Rosa Giorgi, Stefano Zuffi, 2003
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The Monthly Gazette of Health or Medical, Dietetic, ...
She was first seized in February, 1820, with fits, which the faculty called Saint
Vitus' Dance. After she had been afflicted with them three weeks, she came home
, and an eminent accoucheur was consulted. Under the influence of the fits, each
of ...
Richard Reece, M.D., 1830
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Marsden's Book of Movement Disorders
In 1895 Thomas Sydenham described a different disorder which he called 'Saint
Vitus's dance', but which subsequently became known as Sydenham's chorea (
see Chapter 22 on 'Sydenham's Chorea'). The term chorea has subsequently ...
Susanne Schneider, Kailash Bhatia, 2012
