Brewer's: Falling Sickness

Epilepsy, in which the patient falls suddenly to the ground.

“Brutus.—He[i.e. Cæsar] hath the falling-sickness.”

Cassius.

“No, Cæsar hath it not: but you, and I, And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.”

Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, i. 2.

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