English

Noun

falling-sickness ‎(uncountable)

1. 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