Shaking sickness

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The shaking sickness[1] 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]

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.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

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