quinsy

How To Use quinsy In A Sentence

• Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel.
• Persons who escape an attack of quinsy, and when the disease is turned upon the lungs, die in seven days; or if they pass these they become affected with empyema. Aphorisms
• He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. Sole Music
• Sanicle is used as a gargle in sore throat, quinsy, and whenever an astringent gargle is required.
• If it be quinsy or any other of the pleuritic affections, purge with electuaries; but if the patient be weaker, or if you abstract more blood, you may administer a clyster every third day, until he be out of danger, and enjoin total abstinence if necessary. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
• There was a child of my own, and he but a year and a-half old, and he got a quinsy and a choking in the throat and I was holding him in my arms beside the fire, and all in a minute he died. Later Articles and Reviews
• (_Asperula cynanchica_), so called from the Greek _cynanche_, which means quinsy, because an excellent gargle may be made from this herb for the troublesome throat affection here specified, and for any severe sore throat. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• I examined him flat on the bed: the pharynx was a little red, but there was no quinsy or obvious swelling, and no cervical lymphadenopathy.
• It is a good sign when swelling and redness on the breast seize a person very ill of quinsy, for in this case the disease is diverted outwardly. Aphorisms
• Well I was looking it up and I found out on the Net that suppurative tonsillitis is also known as... quinsy THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE