Cases of periodical jactitation, or chorea / by Robert Watt, M.D.

  • Watt, Robert, 1774-1819.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Cases of periodical jactitation, or chorea / by Robert Watt, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF PERIODICAL JACTITATION, OR CHOREA. By ROBERT WATT/M.D. LECTURER ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE^ IN GLASGOW. , / (■wpaiyjgyp Read February \, 1814. We are informed by Horstius, that some women, whom he describes as being disordered in their minds and affected with a peculiar kind of rest® lessness in their bodies, repaired once a year to the Chapel of St. Vitus, near Ulm, and continued there night and day leaping and dancing, till they were so exhausted as to drop down almost dead. Thus, continues he, they were restored and con¬ tinued well till the following May, when the same propensity returned, and required a similar course of exercise to remove it. From this tradition, the convulsive disease to which children are liable, is said to have derived its name; and though consi¬ derably different in their phenomena, yet the two affections are perhaps nothing more than different species or varieties of the same disease. VOL. V. B