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piblokto|pɪˈblɒktəʊ|
Also piblockto, pibloktoq.
[Eskimo.]
a. = Arctic hysteria s.v. Arctic a. 1 c.
b. A form of hysterical illness prevalent among Eskimo dogs.
1898Geogr. Jrnl. XI. 228, I pushed on until the ‘piblockto’, or Greenland dog madness, induced by the continued exposure, got such a hold of my dogs as to make it absolutely impracticable for me to go further. 1910R. E. Peary North Pole xviii. 156 The adults are subject to a peculiar nervous affection which they call piblokto... The attack usually ends in a fit of weeping; and when the patient quiets down, the eyes are bloodshot, the pulse high, and the whole body trembles for an hour or so afterward. 1921A. B. Reader tr. Tremblay's Cruise of Minnie Maud vi. 125 The adult Eskimo are often subject to a peculiar nervous affection, a form of hysteria, which they call piblokto... Eskimo dogs and foxes suffer also from piblokto. 1945C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 207 The dread Arctic disease, piblockto (a devastating form of distemper). 1959Camsell Arrow (C. Camsell Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta) Jan.–Feb. 74/1 There is a strange Eskimo madness—piblokto. Men and women are seized with uncontrollable frenzies during which they do all sorts of weird and violent things. 1969Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 16/3 Eskimos have been known to have seizures of Pibloktoq, in which they undergo periods of depression followed by wild excitement, then convulsions and stupor, possibly due to the biological effects of the loss of a human time-structure. |