Iago. My lord is fall’n into an epilepsy: This is his second fit; he had one yesterday. Cas. Rub him about the temples. Iago.No, forbear; The lethargy must have his quiet course; If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by Breaks out to savage madness. Act IV., Sc. I.
A plague upon your epileptic visage! King Lear, Act. II., Sc. II.
He takes some notice of the other affections classed under nervous diseases.
Which of your hips has the most profound sciatica? Measure for Measure, Act I., Sc. II.
Thou cold sciatica, Cripple our Senators, that their limbs may halt As lamely as their manners! Timon of Athens, Act IV., Sc. I.
Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I! It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. Romeo and Juliet, Act II., Sc. V.
When your head did but ache I knit my handkerchief about your brows. King John, Act IV., Sc. I.
Oth. I have a pain upon my forehead here. Des. Why, that’s with watching; ’t will away again. Othello, Act III., Sc. II.
Let our finger ache, and it indues Our other healthful members even to a sense Of pain. Othello, Act III., Sc. IV.
Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for good youth he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and being taken with the cramp, was drowned. As You Like It, Act IV., Sc. I.