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A girl fainting and collapsing into the arms of a woman, in the background is a similar scene of a fainting man. Engraving by W. Sedgwick after E. Penny. Wellcome Images
Blackburn faintings (1965) – In October 1965, several girls at a girls' school complained of dizziness in Blackburn, England. [34] Some fainted. Within a couple of hours, 85 girls from the school were rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital after fainting. Symptoms included swooning, moaning, chattering of teeth, hyperpnea, and tetany. [34]
The younger girls proved more susceptible, but disturbance was more severe and lasted longer in the older girls. It was considered that the epidemic was hysterical, that a previous polio epidemic had rendered the population emotionally vulnerable, and that a three-hour parade, producing 20 faints on the day before the first outbreak, had been ...
Woman goes viral after filming scary moment she fainted at the gym due to her POTS diagnosis
Acclaimed Japanese horror film Audition is set to get an English-language remake.. Directed by Takashi Miike, the original 1999 film has been embraced as a classic of the genre, and is notorious ...
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise, Ang Lee and more gathered for a 25th anniversary reunion celebrating "Sense and Sensibility."
Gloria Cecilia Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) [1] was an American woman who was dubbed the Toxic Lady or the Toxic Woman by the media when several hospital workers became ill after airborne exposure to her body and blood.
Some Israeli doctors theorized the girls were playacting. In response, "the Arab league accused Israel of using chemical weapons to exterminate Arab people, and Arab doctors from Tul-Karem Hospital raised suspicion that the gas was intended to produce sterility in the affected girls". [3] The epidemic had peaked by April 1, Hefez found.