1865 28 411 Of brain and nerve diseases ·199 men and ·168 women [die].
1926 J. S. Huxley viii. 97 Those who have studied nerve-disease.
1993 25 Sept. 9/1 The ‘biggest surprise’ was evidence that tetanus and oral polio vaccine caused Guillain-Barre syndrome, a nerve disease that causes numbness and weakness in the limbs.