Possible Clues:

• Convulsive disorder of the central nervous system
• Neurological disorder
• Disorder characterized by seizures
• Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered
• Disorder of nervous system once called the falling sickness
• Nervous disorder causing convulsions and fainting
• Strangely sleepy swallowing half pill for affliction
• Nervous disorder causing convulsions
• Nervous disorder causing fits or convulsions
• It makes some people get fit all of a sudden