Quinsy
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quinsy · synanche
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Aphorisms
A named throat disease (severe throat inflammation)
It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly.
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.
De diaeta acutorum
A choking throat affection caused by flux descending from the head into the jugular veins, treated with bloodletting, cutting veins beneath the tongue, and other remedies.
If, then, it be quinsy, clear it out with electuaries, or any other of the affections of the chest;
Quinsy (synanche) arises when from the head a copious and gluey flux flows down, in the winter or spring season, into the jugular veins, and they draw in the more flux on account of their width;