So they got very interested in producing convulsions, measured types of convulsions.

Then come convulsions.

Still juggling.

How about tetany?

Half hour later, the convulsions started.

Oh, yes. The little girl who had the convulsions.

The tetany test was negative.

They would anesthetize people, convulse them, but the real difficulty was that there was no way to paralyze muscles.

Let's see what the encyclopedia says about convulsions.

Well, the convulsions were all over at 7 00 or 8 00 in the morning.

How could the convulsions start again nearly 20 hours later?

No pain, no convulsions, absolutely tasteless.

The only way you can die of strychnine is during a convulsion.

Look at those chumps. Mr. Dugenet and his twitch.

You saw the horrible convulsions and the agony she went through.

So, they found certain plants that could cause convulsions.

And so people begin thinking in terms of electricity to produce convulsions.

It's called an epilepse because of the arching caused by muscular spasms the contortions.

Apparently, Polly and her father had the same kind of convulsions.

I'm calling in a specialist, Mrs. Cameron. It looks like tetany.

And by seven minutes I had gone into these awful convulsions.

The victim had the same kind of convulsions... and kept screaming, Don't touch my hands!

Overdoses of cocaine can lead to convulsive fits, heart paralysis or high fever.

Some also suffer from dizziness, vomiting, fainting, partial paralysis, headaches and facial disfigurements.

At 11 minutes I started feeling throbbing sensations in my legs, and my lips started to feel really strange.

You told me it wasn't tetany, yet that's what was put on the death certificate. Why?

And then in the 1950s, late 1950s, the so called muscle relaxants were developed by pharmacologists, and it got so that you could induce a complete convulsion, an electroencephalographic convulsion you could see it on the brain waves without causing any convulsion in the body except a little bit of twitching of the toes.

Galvani showed that a frog's legs twitched when he connected the lumbar nerve to a source of electrical current.

My mind teems, jumbles of faces, voices, impressions, I live my life over, as though I were drowning.

To live in the Now How long is the human lifespan?

Finally, in about the sixteenth century, a physician whose name was Theophrastus Bombastus Aureolus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, a name probably familiar to some people here good, old Paracelsus found that he could predict the degree of convulsion by using a measured amount of camphor to produce the convulsion.

And we've come a long way since Galvani's and Susana's first successes in making animals twitch or jump.

But the implications of being able to control seizures or epilepsy with light instead of drugs, and being able to target those specifically is a first step.

Well, along comes Benjamin Franklin, and he comes close to convulsing himself with a bolt of electricity off the end of his kite.

The Special Rapporteur was informed that the officers had beaten him and that, after he had begun to suffer convulsions, he had been taken by ambulance to Ramos Mejia hospital but was dead on arrival.

But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the Western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic or severely depressed.

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Do you smoke?

If you are going to smoke, please go outside.

Pumping, pumping, pumping.

And we also needed to make sure that we could take Brad's idiosyncrasies, his little tics, the little subtleties that make him who he is and have that translate through our process so that it appears in Benjamin on the screen.

The name drawn was Thailand.

I oughta belt him.

The chorus continues Pump it out, pump it out, I'm feeding them babies, pump it out, pump it out, I'm milking my ladies.

If you don't see them, you don't think about them.