"Chorea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of weakness. deaths due to convulsions, or | 4 had curable diseases. 2 oedema of brain and membranes. | showed inherited nervous defects. 2 were idiots. 5 dwarfs. 5 | This leaves 50 who were in epileptics. 1 had chorea. 5 were | every way normal, sound in body deformed. 2 became drunkards. | and mind. This leaves only 10 who showed | during the whole of life a | normal disposition and development | of body and ...
— Almost A Man • Mary Wood-Allen
... dissociated personalities may be built up again through hypnotism, the most severe bodily symptoms may disappear by influences in a waking state. Hysteria alone would justify the demand that every physician in his student days pass with open eyes through the field of psychology. Quite near stand chorea and the epidemic impulses to imitative movements. And we might bring into this neighborhood also the disturbance in the equilibrium of the speech movements through all degrees of stammering and severe impairment. ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg
... quassation|; shuffling 7c. v.; twitter, flicker, flutter. turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation|; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus[obs3], staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology[obs3], chorea, floccillation[obs3], the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus[obs3]. spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion. disturbance, chaos &c. (disorder) 59; restlessness &c. (changeableness) 149. ferment, fermentation; ebullition, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... Almost all forms of chronic, constitutional diseases, especially those of a nervous character: chorea, sciatica, hysteria, insanity, and above all, epilepsy, may give rise ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
... been either Inigo Jones's "The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge," printed in 1655, or "Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restor'd to the Danes," by Walter Charleton, M.D., ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... mislead hurried or heedless readers: for I spoke of launching a triumphal barge upon a desert, and planting a tree of prosperity in a mine—a tree whose fragrance should slake the thirst of the naked, and whose branches should spread abroad till they washed the chorea of, etc., etc. I thought that manifest lunacy like that would protect the reader. But to make assurance absolute, and show that I did not and could not seriously mean to attempt an Agricultural Department, I stated distinctly in my postscript that I did not know anything about ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... in the same stock, signs of neuropathic taint other than the three diseases dealt with here, and these we get; for alcoholism, criminality, chorea, deformities, insanity and other brain diseases, are not infrequent among the relatives of a neuropath, showing that the ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs |
