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

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

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.

A twitch in a thumb, a nerve or a muscle.

I had a kink in my side, but it's gone now.

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

And after about three months, the nerves grew in a little bit and we could get a twitch.

Then come convulsions.

Still juggling.

How about tetany?

Half hour later, the convulsions started.

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

I just moved my facial muscles a little.

The tetany test was negative.

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.

The thing is muscular.

Nice muscles!

So, they found certain plants that could cause convulsions.

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

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

Drawn to his muscle and brawn

This is actually showing a piece of muscle and how we go through the structures to actually engineer the muscle.

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

So, tissue design.

Just saw the twitch in one of your muscles.

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

We then start adding the muscle on top.

I think self discipline is something, it's like a muscle.

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

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

You open it, these muscles contract.

You place the muscle cells on the outside.

And I'm peeling that muscle away.

And then the other muscles, they get the message and they get tired too.

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

You squeeze your hand, these muscles contract.

We coat the outside with these muscle cells.

I used to be much bigger, much more muscular.