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  • ‘Laryngismus stridulus’, the disease of which the great

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • The symptom of laryngismus stridulus -- the so-called breath-holding -- alone need concern us, and that for a special reason.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Emotional states, appetite affected by causing spasm management of of neurotics, exaggeration of physical disturbances due to producing laryngismus stridulus

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Convulsions, laryngismus stridulus, tetany, or carpopedal spasm are all frequently met with.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

  • Of this heightened irritability of the nervous system, to which the name "spasmophilia" has been given in America and on the Continent, the most striking symptom is a liability alike to tetany or carpo-pedal spasm, to generalised convulsions, and to laryngismus stridulus.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

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