singultus

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Parker reports four rebellious cases of singultus successfully treated by dry cups applied to the abdomen.

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

Hiis auditis, risus in luctum, gaudium in lamenta, iubilus in singultus flebiliter conuertuntur, totaque regia ululatibus personuit et meroribus.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

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.

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)

Among the older medical writers Weber speaks of singultus lasting for five days; Tulpius, for twelve days; Eller and Schenck, for three months; Taranget, for eight months; and Bartholinus, for four years.

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