falling sickness

How to use falling sickness in a sentence

• The parents of a maid who suffered severely from the falling sickness applied to him, on one occasion, for a cure.

  Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams

• But when shaking him and roaring at him failed to rouse him, I knew well it was the falling sickness.

  The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays | William B. Yeats

• Lupton says: "A piece of child's navel-string borne in a ring is good against falling sickness."

  Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia | Isaac G. Briggs

• It was a sickness, I believe, like the falling-sickness that comes to old men; and in time I grew better and dreamed no more.

  Children of the Frost | Jack London

• These rings were supposed to cure cramp and the "falling sickness."

  The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical | Frank H. Stauffer