Epilepsy: alternatives and connections

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to prod…

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent feve…

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and dr…

of Burst

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…

The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpit…

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between…

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the…