Strauss'work on the operetta was interrupted in autumn 1883 due to nicotine poisoning and fainting fits and he was to recuperate in Franzensbad.
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While she manages to escape her cell by faking a fainting fit and locking her jailer in, she runs into the commander and his men.
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"That was a time when people got fainting fits if they saw bright red, " he said in an interview in 1983, speaking of the 1950s.
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Having just come back from a visit to the governor of Syria, Ibn al-' Ala'experienced a series of fainting fits while in Kufa, where he was buried.
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In early 1625, James was plagued by severe attacks of arthritis, gout, and fainting fits, and fell seriously ill in March with tertian ague and then suffered a stroke.
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Vivien variously suffered from neuralgia, menstrual cramps, fainting fits, malnutrition, " catarrh of the intestines, " septic influenza, paralysis, hysteria, manic depression, panic attacks, paranoia and obsessional behavior, meaning she constantly washed her hands.
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Sunday told one reporter that he believed that people could " be converted without any fuss, " and, at Sunday's meetings, " instances of spasm, shakes, or fainting fits caused by hysteria were few and far between ."
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She also had an unnamed illness as a teenager that some now believe to have been anorexia nervosa / chlorosis Her condition is described as involving weight loss, uneven appetite, vomiting and diarrhoea, pallor, fainting fits and breathing difficulties.
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Her juvenalia also included a heroine who guyed Harriet Byron's frequent fainting, through being in such a hurry to have a succession of fainting fits, that she had scarcely patience enough to recover from one before she fell into another .
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The title is a reference to the French saying " la petite mort, " which translates to " the little death " and used to be a reference to a fainting fit but in modern times is used to describe the sensation after an orgasm.
