tussis
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Origin of tussis
< Latin: a cough
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Est quidquid pueros non sinit esse truces, At tu non cessas totis tussire diebus Non est hæc tussis, Parthenopæ gula est.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Thus Martial: Leniat ut fauces medicus, quas aspera vexat Assiduè tussis, Parthenopæ tibi Mella dari, nucleosque jubet dulcesque placentas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Nom. tussis īgnis hostis -is Gen. tussis īgnis hostis -is Dat. tussī īgnī hostī -ī Acc. tussim īgnem hostem -im, -em Voc. tussis īgnis hostis -is Abl. tussī īgnī or e hoste -ī, -e PLURAL.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Horace gives a most correct idea of this class in these well-known lines:— "Hunc neque dira venena, nec hosticus auferet ensis Nec laterum dolor, aut tussis aut tarda podagra, Garrulus hunc quando consumet."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
Note, however, in passing, that Schoepf says nothing, save tussis, that suggests the vis anti-spasmodica of Cutler.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
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