A brief description of the disease Sydenham's Chorea also called St. Vitus Dance.

Sydenham's Chorea Sydenham's Chorea is a neurological disorder of the basal ganglia first identified in medical literature in 1686 by Thomas Sydenham. This disorder has also been called acute chorea, rheumatic chorea, chorea minor, infectious chorea, and St. Vitus dance. The name St. Vitus dance is derived from the Middle Ages when people who had this disease gathered in the chapels of St. Vitus in belief that this Catholic patron saint of dancing had miraculous curative …

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