/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Falling Sickness
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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 Cœsar, i. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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