Opisthotony - a disease in which the body is violently curved backward, ref. Pliny the Elder, Historius Naturalis.
Pliny the Elder, Book 28, Chapter 52 "For the painful cramp, attended with inflexibility, to which people give the name of opisthotony, the urine of a she-goat injected into the ears, is found very useful; as also a liniment made of the dung of that animal mixed with bulbs."
[Sounds like 21st Century auto-immune therapy. I drank my urine for a while.]
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