apoplexy
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Apoplexy would be a kind description of their response.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2016
Apoplexy may be produced by various causes, hereditary disposition, high living, or anxiety of mind, or all united.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
This Disease is generally distinguished into two Kinds, the sanguineous and serous Apoplexy.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
"Apoplexy and palsy, in a scarcely credible number of cases, are directly dependent on hypertrophic enlargement of the heart."
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
Apoplexy may be termed an universal palsy, or a permanent sleep.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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