convulsion-fits

The fugitive Camisars who came to London had convulsion-fits, prophesied, made converts, and attracted the public attention by an offer to raise the dead.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

"If you please, Dr. Martin," she said, "I'm very sorry, but Mrs. Lihou's baby is taken with convulsion-fits; and they want you to go as fast as ever you can, please, sir."

The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

If this comes on gradually, like the changes in the human body, by the slow approach of old age, so much the better; but I fear we shall have fevers, and convulsion-fits, and cholics, and an everlastin 'gripin' of the intestines first; you and I won't live to see it Sam, but our posteriors will, you may depend. '

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

If this comes on gradually, like the changes in the human body, by the slow approach of old age, so much the better; but I fear we shall have fevers, and convulsion-fits, and cholics, and an everlastin gripin of the intestines first; you and I wont live to see it Sam, but our posteriors will, you may depend.

The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

This unfortunate creature had been subject to convulsion-fits from her infancy: these, at the age of fourteen, yielded to a paralytic attack which deadened half her limbs, whilst the acute sense of suffering seemed to have acquired force from its concentrated power of acting, and from time to time she was liable to tortures from spasms in her stomach.

The Unexpected Legacy 1804

He adds, -- "Here is what happened during her first convulsion-fits.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various