We were just discussing this last night and someone said it was the same thing as palsy (The Shakes as we called it), but I guess not. My grandmother had "The Shakes" so bad you could never read her writing. Phillip In a message dated 8/13/2006 7:29:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time, srdennis@mindspring.com writes: Barbara, Googling produced no result for St. Vincent Dance or St. Vincent's Dance or Saint Vincent Dance. Perhaps one could just say that it is a neuronal misfire causing the morphing of St. Vitus Dance into St. Vincent Dance: > Sydenham's chorea - chorea occurring chiefly in children and > associated with rheumatic fever > Saint Vitus dance, St. Vitus dance > chorea - any of several degenerative nervous disorders > characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs Stan Dennis