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The Sacred Disease

"The hands become powerless and move convulsively...divergence of the eyes...froth appears at the lips...choking causes passage of stools...When air is shut off in the vessels of the limbs..it moves violently up and down...and the convulsions and pain thus caused produce kicking movements..."
(SD.10, trans. Chadwick and Mann)


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