Word: choreas
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...couple of years ago, he made a pilgrimage to New York to visit Woody Guthrie, his spiritual leader, lying ill of Huntington's chorea. Seeing Guthrie and sleeping in the subways became his twin pleasures, and he began to sing for money in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. "Man, I could whip anybody. I was at the high point of my life from seein' Woody. He ain't a folk singer?he's a genius genius genius genius...
...third drug for dropping the blood pressure, mecamylamine (trade name: Inversine), sometimes causes severe anxiety or depression and is suspected of having triggered disabling mental illnesses. Other patients have developed chorea (muscular twitching), with tremor, slurred speech, and difficulty in controlling the joints; in some cases the symptoms have resembled multiple sclerosis; in others there have been severe epileptoid seizures...
Matched Histories. Cerebral palsy afflicts one child out of 215 born in the U.S. But it is a catchall label for a wide variety of symptoms, and it may have an equal variety of causes. Symptoms range from spasticity (generalized rigidity of the muscles), chorea (sudden and jerky purposeless movements), athetosis (slower and more writhing movements), grimacing and lack of balance...
Finally, Murray would "shun the sweeping positive judgements" which Olin Downes of the Times "would tremble to make." One need look back no further than last Sunday to find a column by Downes that must have given him chorea, if not epilepay. But remember, Murray, that he who is only a timid fence sitter will get splinters in uncomfortable places. Caldwell Titcomb...
...harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common in old, neutered toms; cats "rarely, if ever, have rickets, rheumatism, chorea, tetanus, or become poisoned by snake bites"; morphine crazes...