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Other vices discompose the understanding: this totally overthrows it and renders the body stupid Cum vini vis penetravit Consequitur gravitas membrorum, praepediuntur Crura vacillanti, tardescit lingua, madet mens Nant oculi; clamor, singultus, jurgia, gliscunt When the power of wine has penetrated us, a heaviness of the limbs follows, the legs of the tottering person are impeded; the tongue grows torpid, the mind is dimmed, the eyes swim; noise, hiccup, and quarrels arise.--"Lucretius, i.— The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
Nant oculi; clamor, singultus, jurgia, gliscunt. "— The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
The Ephemerides mentions singultus as a cause of abortion.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Holston reports a case of chronic singultus of seven years 'standing.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Dexter reports a case of long-continued singultus in an Irish girl of eighteen, ascribed to habitual masturbation.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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