Word: choreas
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Vitus Dance. At Albany, Dr. H. L. K. Shaw of the State Department of Health talked over the radio last week about St. Vitus Dance, the mildest, most hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling...