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Quinsy

Inflammation of the tonsils, or common inflammatory sore throat, occurs to adults. It is an inflammation of commences with a slight feverish attack, with the larynx, trachea, and contiguous tissues. considerable pain and swelling of the tonsils, It derives its name from the peculiar sound of causing some difficulty in swallowing; as the the voice and breathing, being of a whistling attack advances these symptoms become more or crowing character, owing to a contraction intense, there is headache, thirst, a painful of the glottis. It generally commences with sense of tension, and acute darting pains in a common cold and catarrh, hoarseness, the ears. The attack is generally brought on cough, and increased difficulty of breathing, by exposure to cold, and lasts from 5 to 7 and the crowing already spoken of. It demands prompt treatment.