Citations:astraphobia
English citations of astraphobia
George Miller Beard (1873) Atmospheric Electricity and Ozone: Their Relation to Health and Disease: “There are those who are utterly prostrated before and during a thunder-storm, thrown into vomiting and convulsions; and these spasmodic disruptions are followed by hours or days of exhaustion.1
1 […] To this disease I have given the name Astraphobia. […]”
Alphonso David Rockwell (1903) The medical and surgical uses of electricity, including the X-ray, Finsen light, vibratory therapeutics, and high-frequency currents: “In several cases of astraphobia of long standing we found much diminution of volitional contractility and considerable anaesthesia, but no loss of electric […]”
Vardis Fisher (1936) No villain need be: “She had astraphobia, but when it was explained to her that all animals fear thunder and lightning, she threw that away and got another.”
David H. Barlow, Steven C. Hayes, Rosemery O. Nelson-Gray (1984) The scientist practitioner: research and accountability in clinical and educational settings: “An example of ATD data in which three series are compared in a client with astraphobia. (A longer latency means less anxiety.)”