falling-sickness

See also: falling sickness

English

Noun

falling-sickness (uncountable)

falling sickness (obsolete) i.e. epilepsy

References

1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

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