10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALLING EVIL»
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The
Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks ...
2 The disease itself is designated as passio caduca 3 and analogous names
appear in the medieval literature of many European nations: “falling evil” or “
falling sickness” in English, fallendes Siechtum, 4 Fallsucht, falligs Wai 5 in
German, ...
2
The Farrier's New Guide: Containing First, the Anatomy of a ...
'T'HE Falling Evil is that which, in the PhystciansTerms, .*. comes under the
Denomination of an Epilepsy, and seems to be no other than an Apoplexy or
Vertigo, accom- pany'd with Convulsions, either as the Cause or Effect. In the
Falling Evil ...
3
The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary, Being a Compleat ...
The Falling-Evil, Planer-slmcle, Night-Man, or Palsey. A certain Author fiys, these
Distempers are all of one Nature. tho' they look with different Faces, and proceed
all from a like Cause. When it causes the Horse to fall dOWn, it is call'd the ...
Thomas Wallace, N. B., 1726
4
The Gentleman and Farme's Guide For the Increase and ...
The Apoplexy differs but little in outward Appearance from the Falling-Evil, for it is
a Depriving of the whole1 Body of Senfe and Motion ; but if it deprive only Part of
the Body, or ; but one Member, then it is called a Palfey. It differetH from the ...
5
The farriers and horsemans Dictionary
The Falling-Evil, Planet-struck, Night-Mare, or Palsey. A certain Author fays, these
Distempers are all of one Nature, tho' they look with difserent Faces, and proceed
all from a like Cause. When it causes the Horse to fall down, it is call'd the ...
6
Sauer's Herbal Cures: America's First Book of Botanic ...
Pilewort (Lesser Celandine) 245 lives, it will not be afflicted by fits or the falling
evil. This remedy was firmly proved in the case of eight children from one mother,
who did not employ this remedy on the first two, who died of fits. But after that, the
...
William Woys Weaver, 2001
7
Master-piece: containing all Knowlege ... touching the ...
'il-"His Falling Evil, or as the Italian: call it, This Malcadrtco, is no. i _ thing else but
that which we call in Men the Falling Sickness, in Beafls the Falling Evil 'z for it
doth for a certain Season, deprive them of all Sense whatsoever. It is a Disease ...
38 For the falling evil. For the falling evil, take, if it be a man, a female mole, if a
woman a male mole, and take them in March, or else April, when they go to the
buck:" then dry it in an oven, and make powder of it whole as you take ...
Sudden falls were considered the hallmark of epilepsy. Accordingly, the disease
was often called falling sickness, falling ill or falling evil. The Romans used
morbus caducus and passio caduca, the French mal caduc, the Italians mal
caduco, ...
Yvan Lebrun, Franco Fabbro, 2008
10
Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin
And here let us marvel at one thing, that Quails are generally forbidden because
their flesh engendereth the falling evil, and yet Galen commandeth. their brains (
the principal seat _of that great evil) as antidote against the same. There are ...
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1908
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Big hearts with strength enough to conquer falling evil's shade. All around us shattered structures pulverize the street, But courageous love still ... «Newsday, Mar 11»
