quinsy

• “For the Church of the Badia of Florence he made a very beautiful S. Jerome; and he began a Deposition from the Cross for the high-altar of the Friars of the Nunziata, but only finished the figures in the upper half of the picture, for, being overcome by a most cruel fever and by that contraction of the throat that is commonly known as quinsy, he died in a few days at the age of forty-five.”

  Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo

• “The name Prunella (which belongs more rightly to another herb) has been given to the Sanicle, perhaps, through its having been originally known as Brunella, Brownwort, both because of the brown colour of its spikes, and from its being supposed to cure the disease called in Germany _die braune_, a kind of quinsy; on the doctrine of signatures, because the corolla resembles a throat with swollen glands.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “Next day, I was in my surgery, listening patiently to an elderly lady from the village, some relation to the soup cook, who was rather garrulously detailing her daughter-in-law's bout with the morbid sore throat that theoretically had something to do with her current complaint of quinsy, though I couldn't at the moment see the connection.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Sole Music

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Later Articles and Reviews

• “He was sick with quinsy, a severe throat infection, and malaria.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dream State

• “Bilious colic, quinsy, flux, summer complaint—turn on your side, madame—not to mention jail fever, hip gout, and lumbago.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

• “A quinsy, also known as a peritonsillar abscess, is an abscess between the back of the tonsil and the adjoining wall of the throat".”

  languagehat.com: NEWS IN ANCIENT GREEK.

• “He phoned in to say he'd got quinsy," said Rydberg.”

  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

• “But the wits, turning the matter to ridicule, said that certainly the orator had been seized that night with no other than a silver quinsy.”

  The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

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