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Definition of Falling sickness

Falling sickness
Falling Fall"ing, a. & n. from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak. Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an a["e]rolite. Falling tide, the ebb tide. Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.

Meaning of Falling sickness from wikipedia

-  'earthen sickness', mal de Saint Jean lit. 'Saint John's sickness', mal des enfans lit. 'child sickness', and mal-caduc lit. 'falling sickness'. Patients...
- epilepsy. At the time, symptoms relating to epilepsy were diagnosed as falling sickness and treatments included rubbing blood of a non-sufferer on the lips...
- Journal. 77: 428–32. Cawthorne, Terence (1958). "Julius caesar and the falling sickness". The Laryngoscope. 68 (8): 1442–1450. doi:10.1288/00005537-195808000-00005...
- antiquity, that caused the limbs to jerk and the body to collapse ('the falling sickness', as it was sometimes called), but a mental epilepsy—a seizing up of...
- ketogenic diet. Totowa: Humana Press; 2004. ISBN 1588292959. Temkin O. The falling sickness: a history of epilepsy from the Gr****s to the beginnings of modern...
- plantes. Properties ascribed to it include help for those with "the falling sickness", cramps, ague, jaundice, and sciatica, clearing of the lungs, chest...
- Motion sickness occurs due to a difference between actual and expected motion. Symptoms commonly include nausea, vomiting, cold sweat, headache, dizziness...
- "the King's Evil" ( mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis), for "the falling sickness" (epilepsy), and for "a scabby head". There is no empirical evidence...
- the scythe of Saturn – an endless graveyard for a humanity struck by falling sickness. Sebald, W.G. (1998). The Rings of Saturn. London: New Directions Books...
- Song of Percival Pea****, and a book of plays under the title, The Falling Sickness. His final book was See Jack (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009)...