CLAUSTROPHOBIA • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Claustrophobia

... Hospital who had a great fear of death on getting into a tram car, and was seized with palpitation and trembling on merely seeing the car. This patient had been in an asylum. The case was possibly due more to fear of an accident than to true claustrophobia. Gorodoichze mentions a case of claustrophobia in a woman of thirty-eight, in whose family there was a history of hereditary insanity. Ball speaks of a case in a woman who was overcome with terror half way in the ascension of the Tour Saint-Jacques, when she ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... Tubby, who hasn't recovered from his 1918 dose of shell-shock, got a go of claustrophobia and felt he simply had to get out of ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various