squinancy

“The Rabbins have a tradition, that the disease of the squinancy came into the world upon the account of tithes.”

From the Talmud and Hebraica

“‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’;”

English Past and Present

“He that had deserved strangling was either drowned in some river, or choked by a squinancy [angina]. ”

From the Talmud and Hebraica