It is on clinical grounds that beriberi, scarlet fever, measles, &c., are recognized as belonging to the same class, and evolving in phases which differ not in intimate nature but in the more superficial and inessential characters of time, rate and polymorphism; and the impression is gaining strength that acute rheumatism belongs to the group of the infections, certain sore throats, chorea and other apparently distinct maladies being terms of this series.
Nervous phenomena, such as chorea and epileptic seizures, have been attributed to the presence of the tapeworm.
There is some doubtful evidence of the value of the alkaloid in chorea.
The oxide has been given in epilepsy and chorea.
Among the diseases against which St Vitus is invoked is chorea, also known as St Vitus's Dance.