Spasmophilia

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. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

To control or prevent it we must direct attention not only to the condition of spasmophilia, but also to the management of the children who are always excitable and emotional. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

For our present purpose -- the examination of some common neuroses of nursery life -- it would be out of place to enter into a detailed consideration of this disorder of spasmophilia as a whole. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

Rickets, mental and intellectual condition in in infantile children occurrence with spasmophilia ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

The ætiology of spasmophilia is still a matter for dispute, but the evidence which we possess is in favour of the view that we have here to deal with a disturbance of calcium metabolism. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

The child with spasmophilia is as a rule excitable and easily upset, and although calcium bromide is a drug which offers powerful aid it is not able to achieve its effect unless we are able at the same time to guarantee a reasonable immunity from emotional upsets. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

It is in keeping with this that clinically we note how frequently spasmophilia and rickets occur in the same child. ❋ Hector Charles Cameron (N/A)

They don't have CFS in France; they have a strange one, spasmophilia, where a person has unexplained convulsions. ❋ Unknown (2009)