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In a related disorder called Sydenham's chorea, strep antibodies attack the part of the brain that controls movement, causing jerking, stumbling, weakness and difficulty writing.
Does Strep Throat Trigger Serious Ills? Melinda Beck 2011
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Curator Nancy Ireson's excellent catalog essay makes the case that Avril had a neurological ailment, Sydenham's chorea, which explains her limbs flying out at odd angles during her dance.
The Artistry of Toulouse-Lautrec and His Dancing Muse Jane Avril Paul Levy 2011
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Some experts think the Pandas cases may be a version of Sydenham's.
Does Strep Throat Trigger Serious Ills? Melinda Beck 2011
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Curator Nancy Ireson's excellent catalog essay makes the case that Avril had a neurological ailment, Sydenham's chorea, which explains her limbs flying out at odd angles during her dance.
The Artistry of Toulouse-Lautrec and His Dancing Muse Jane Avril Paul Levy 2011
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It is for this reason that Sydenham's chorea has the common name of "St. Vitus's dance."
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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An English physician named Thomas Sydenham first described this form of the disease in 1686, so that it is usually called Sydenham's chorea.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The British Domestic Herbal, of Sydenham's time, describes a case of alarming dropsy, with great constitutional exhaustion treated most successfully with a medicine composed of
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Sydenham's Method of curing almost all Diseases, 7th Edit.
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The earlier investigators were responsible for the differentiation of the tics from such other conditions as Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's chorea, the spasms, the stereotypies, the habit movements, the myoclonias, and other allied conditions.
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Under Sydenham's shrewd and energetic leadership a business programme of long-delayed reforms was put through.
The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909
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