falling-sickness

It was a sickness, I believe, like the falling-sickness that comes to old men; and in time I grew better and dreamed no more.

LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

And therefore, they called demoniacs, that is, possessed by the devil, such as we call madmen or lunatics, or such as had the falling-sickness; or that spoke anything which they, for want of understanding, thought absurd.

Leviathan 2007

Ignoble death, by a falling-sickness, by the bite of an asp, a runaway horse.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

"Kordicus is a disease, generated from the repletion of the vessels of the brain, whereby the understanding is confounded; and it is a kind of falling-sickness."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

And some say his wits are unsettled, and I hold that that's the truth of the creatur '; for he does nothing but go wandering up and down the country, now h'yar and now thar, hunting for meat and skins; and that's pretty much the way he makes a living: and once I see'd the creatur' have a fit -- a right up-and-down touch of the falling-sickness, with his mouth all of a foam.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

It was a sickness, I believe, like the falling-sickness that comes to old men; and in time I grew better and dreamed no more.

Li-Wan, the Fair 1902

Smaragd (an emerald) good against falling-sickness, p.  141.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

The diseases prescribed for are plague, small-pox, fevers, king's evil, insanity, falling-sickness, and the like; with such injuries as broken bones, dislocations, and burning with gunpowder.

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The diseases prescribed for are plague, small-pox, fevers, king's evil, insanity, falling-sickness, and the like; with such injuries as broken bones, dislocations, and burning with gunpowder.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The Romans used to hang red coral round the necks of their children to save them from falling-sickness, sorcery, charms, and poison.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847