The 10th century Metrical Charm " Against A Sudden Stitch " ( Wið færstice ) offers remedy against sudden pain ( such as rheumatism ) caused by projectiles of either ése or ylfe or witches ( gif hit wære esa gescot oððe hit wære ylfa gescot oððe hit wære hægtessan gescot " be it Ése-shot or Elf-shot or witch-shot ").

Two Old English charms mention figures that are theorized as representing an Anglo-Saxon notion of valkyries or valkyrie-like female beings ; Wið færstice, a charm to cure a sudden pain or stitch, and For a Swarm of Bees, a charm to keep honey bees from swarming.

" Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that Wið færstice was originally a battle spell that had, over time, been reduced to a evoke " a prosaic stitch in the side ".

Hilda R. Davidson compares the incantation to the Old English Wið færstice charm, and theorizes a similar role for them both.

Among the charms are several incantations in Old English alliterative verse, the most famous being those known as the Nine Herbs Charm and Wið færstice (' Against a sudden, stabbing pain ').

Wið færstice is an Old English medical text surviving in the collection known now as Lacnunga.

Wið færstice means ' against a sudden / violent stabbing pain '; scholars have often sought to identify this as rheumatism, but other possibilities should not be excluded.

In the 10th century Metrical Charm " Against A Sudden Stitch " ( Wið færstice ), it states that various forms of sickness, such as rheumatism, could be induced by " elfshot "-arrows fired by elves.

This describes how the færstice has been caused by the projectiles of ' mighty women ' ( ða mihtigan wif ), whom the healer will combat.

At once the excruciating pain in his chest stopped and he was seized with a sudden, wild exultation.

The symptoms of a vertebral collapse (" compression fracture ") are sudden back pain, often with radiculopathic pain ( shooting pain due to nerve root compression ) and rarely with spinal cord compression or cauda equina syndrome.

Major symptoms are sudden loss of vision ( partial or complete ), sudden blurred or " foggy " vision, and pain on movement of the affected eye.

The disorder may coexist ( in one quarter of cases ) with polymyalgia rheumatica ( PMR ), which is characterized by sudden onset of pain and stiffness in muscles ( pelvis, shoulder ) of the body and is seen in the elderly.

Although his death was sudden, his health had been declining for several years, and he suffered from a constant and severe pain in the neck.

While cardiac issues cause feelings of sudden pressure in the chest or a crushing pain in the back, neck and arms, pain that is felt due to non cardiac issues gives a burning feeling along the digestive tract or pain when deep breaths are attempted.

EVD begins with a sudden onset of an influenza-like stage characterized by general malaise, fever with chills, arthralgia and myalgia, and chest pain.

MHF presents with a high fever (~ 40 ˚ C ) and a sudden, severe headache, with accompanying chills, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pharyngitis, maculopapular rash, abdominal pain, conjunctivitis, & malaise.

The first sign is often sudden intense abdominal pain.

Also, there is severe pain on sudden release of deep pressure in the lower abdomen ( rebound tenderness ).

Deep palpation of the viscera over the suspected inflamed appendix followed by sudden release of the pressure causes the severe pain on the site indicating positive Blumberg's sign and peritonitis.

Initial signs and symptoms of the disease include sudden onset of fever, headache, and muscle pain, followed by development of rash.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

Back pain may have a sudden onset or can be a chronic pain ; it can be constant or intermittent, stay in one place or radiate to other areas.

The initial reaction should the spray be directed at the face, is the completely involuntary closing of the eyes ( sometimes described as leading to a disconcerting sensation of the eyelids " bubbling and boiling " as the chemical acts on the skin ), an instant sensation of the restriction of the airways and the general feeling of sudden and intense, searing pain about the face, nose, and throat.

It most commonly refers to a muscle cramp which is often accompanied by a sudden burst of pain, but is usually harmless and ceases after a few minutes.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

With another sudden change of mood, he is again calm and protective, exhorting her to trust and obey him as God's spokesman -- and the chromatic scale descends in ominous contradiction.

The ideal storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-five degrees, with an allowable range of five degrees above or below this, provided there are no sudden or frequent changes.

Also, when the patient is standing with arms and hands extended toward the physician, if the eyes are closed, the patient's finger will tend to " fall down " and then be restored to the horizontal extended position by sudden muscular contractions ( the " ataxic hand ").

If the weight is suspended off the seabed it acts as a spring or shock absorber to dampen the sudden actions that are normally transmitted to the anchor and can cause it to dislodge and drag.

It is referred to as a zoonotic arbovirus and causes febrile illness, characterized by the onset of a sudden fever known as Oropouche fever.

Egypt's Ambassador to the UN has also stated " The question is why all of a sudden, when third world labour has proved to be competitive, why do industrial countries start feeling concerned about our workers?

When all of a sudden there is a concern about the welfare of our workers, it is suspicious.

Wave drag is a sudden rise in drag on the aircraft, caused by air building up in front of it.

* Style → There is a sudden change in style and theology after chapter 40 ; numerous key words and phrases found in one section are not found in the other.

The status of Elihu's interrupting didactic sermon is brought further into question by his extremely sudden appearance and disappearance from the text.

26, 000 individuals remain, it began a sudden population decline from around 1980 and is now classified as vulnerable.

There are several causes of sudden cardiac death and it is distinct from cardiac arrest.

Another pattern of breathing is apneustic breathing which is characterized by sudden pauses of inspiration and is due to a lesion of the pons.

Rainfall is sparse, but sudden showers do cause harsh flooding.

One of the stars is a flare star, which are prone to sudden, random outbursts that last several minutes ; these increase the pair's apparent brightness significantly-as high as magnitude 7.

A sudden transition to democracy, these experts contend, would result in the economic and political upheaval that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that by focusing on economic growth, China is setting the stage for a more gradual but sustainable transition to a more politically liberal system.