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Choreic insanity

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

insanity arising from chorea, the latter being a nervous disease, more commonly attacking children than adults, characterized by irregular and involuntary twitch-ings of the muscles of the limbs aud face, popularly called "St. Vitus' dance."