Show Why Nerve Trouble Is Called Caned St St. Vitus' Vitus Dance St St. tU i tin dance nee Is the tIe name popularly popular ly Iy applied to chorea choren n t nervous Ills dis disease ease Euse attended with cO convulsive l e twitch twitch- I and other Involuntary ry movements movement It derives Its common name from the fact St. St Vitus who ho suffered martyrdom martyr martyr- dom doin In the I Fourth century is the saint who Is Invoked In against this dis En ease e. e According to a n legend an nn epi epi- epidemic epidemic demic of dancing mania spread northwestern Europe durIng durIns dur dur- Ins Ing the Fourteenth century Thousands Thou sands of m men n and women danced through the towns and villages singing sing sing- singing ing doggerel until they dropped of f exhaustion The priests at Corvey ey In Westphalia stopped topp d the mania In that section by guiding the dancers Into St. St Vitus' Vitus church where some of his has relics relics' are pre preserved er ed As the dancers circled around the altar they were werl cured by the saint who was noted for his ids cures of nervous ous and epileptic disorders I 1 II I |