singultus

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The Ephemerides mentions singultus as a cause of abortion.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

We recognise his old partiality for diminutives, as in the Frigidulos udo singultus ore cientem, and Languidulosque paret tecum coniungere somnos.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

There is another case related in the same journal of a man who died on the fourth day of an attack of singultus, probably due to abscess of the diaphragm, which no remedy would relieve.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The Ephemerides contains records of epilepsy in which blindness preceded the paroxysm, in which there was singing during it, and a case in which the paroxysm was attended with singultus.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Holston reports a case of chronic singultus of seven years' standing.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)