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)

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.

Cowan speaks of a shoemaker of twenty-two who experienced an attack of constant singultus for a week, and then intermittent attacks for six years.

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.