Shaking sickness
The shaking sickness[1] is a condition similar to epilepsy.
Contents
Disease
The shaking sickness causes its sufferers to twitch,[2] tremble,[1] and have violent seizures.[3] Such seizures are often treated with dreamwine and leeching, with the belief that they are caused by bad blood resulting in rage.[3][4]
History
Member of House Targaryen have historically not been afflicted by diseases such as the shaking sickness.[5]
When people started to die of a mysterious sickness at Dragonstone, Maester Culiper determined it was not the shaking sickness. It turned out to be poisonings by Androw Farman.[6]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Robert Arryn, the young Lord of the Eyrie, suffers from the shaking sickness.[1]
A Storm of Swords
When Edmure Tully, Lord of Riverrun, meets a Frey girl with a twitch, he wonders if she has the shaking sickness.[7]
A Feast for Crows
During a shaking fit, Robert kicks Ser Lothor Brune and wets himself.[4]
Sansa Stark comforts Robert when the boy's hand starts shaking while descending the Giant's Lance.[8]
Quotes
Robert Arryn, Lord of the Eyrie, stood in the doorway, clutching a ragged cloth doll and looking at them with large eyes. He was a painfully thin child, small for his age and sickly all his days, and from time to time he trembled. The shaking sickness, the maesters called it.[1]
—thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Perhaps a pinch of sweetsleep in his milk, have you tried that? Just a pinch, to calm him and stop his wretched shaking.[9]
—Petyr Baelish to Colemon
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 34, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 10, Sansa I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 49, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.