singultus

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

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)

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)

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.

The lips were dry, the tongue markedly coated; _foetor ex ore _was present; painful eructations were frequent, also singultus, complete anorexia and extreme thirst.

From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry