The distilled water of the herb helps the quinsy in the throat, if the mouth and throat be gargled and washed therewith, and helps the pleurisy, being drank three or four times.
Quinsy is like the forcible extraction of prickly thorns from wool, or like a thick rope drawn through a small aperture; the kiss referred to is like the extracting of a hair from milk.
We are also informed that quinsy is the hardest death of all.
When a picnic or a tea-party was in store, if Madam Liberality did not catch cold, so as to hinder her from going, she was pretty sure to have a quinsy from fatigue or wet feet afterwards.
In the intervals of wringing out hot flannels for her quinsy she would amuse herself by devising a desert island expedition, on a larger and possibly a damper scale than hitherto, against the time when she should be out again.
Extra Lines on the Quinsy which Attacks all the Ladies in Scheerau at the Sight Of a Stranger of their own Sex.
This remedy if taken in time, will cure quinsyand it will not return.
In severe cases of quinsy where the tonsils are inflamed and almost meet, a third of a grain of mercury and chalk, or "gray powder," acts very quickly.
You see a sinner is always a sinner and in danger of damnation, for which there is but one cure, but a sick man may have quinsy or he may have diphtheria, and the treatment is different.
My quinsyhas altogether left me, and my blood flows strong after the rest.
I tell you I wished from my heart at that moment that it was me that had had the quinsy instead of Sarah.
Quinsy involves the surrounding structures of the throat, and usually results in abscess.
Quinsy is a peritonsilitis; that is, it is an inflammatory disease of the tissues in which the tonsil is imbedded, an inflammation around the tonsil.
A thorough painting of the tonsils at the onset of a threatened attack of quinsy with the silver-nitrate solution, as recommended under tonsilitis, may cut short the disorder.
It is seen more often in spring and autumn and in those living an out-of-door existence, and having once had quinsy the victim is liable to frequent recurrences of the disease.
Quinsy is rarely a dangerous disease, yet, occasionally, it leads to so much obstruction in the throat that death from suffocation ensues unless a surgeon opens the throat and inserts a tube.
Tonsilitis occurs oftener than mumps, and unlike the latter affection, when the patient has had one attack of quinsy he is likely to have a recurrence whenever he gets a fresh cold.
Tonsilitis or quinsy sore throat is often mistaken for the mumps, but to the experienced practitioner or nurse there is no resemblance, and to mistake one for the other is almost impossible.
The premonition of Washington on his first seizure with the quinsy that the end had come proved fatally true.
The quinsy sore throat which killed him could not be cured by any means then known to medical art.
But angor meant not only quinsy or compression of the neck: it assumed a moral import, and signifies anguish or anxiety.
But what they did tell Tom was that the quinsy had broken, on which he gave three cheers more.
Many illnesses had made her a very philosophical little woman; and, indeed, if the quinsy broke and she were at ease, the combination of good things would be more than any one could reasonably expect, even at Christmas.
Happiness is sometimes very wholesome, but it does not cure a quinsy off hand.
