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by applying mustard to the breast and the parts near the jaws
he determines outwardly and discusses the disease. In certain
cases, indeed, the evil by these means has been for a time driven
outwards, but when so driven out it speedily reverts, and produces
suffocation.
The causes are infinite, more especially exposure to cold,
and, less frequently, to heat; blows; fish-bones fixed in the
tonsils, cold draughts, intoxication, repletion, and the ills from
respiration.
CHAPTER VIII. ON THE AFFECTIONS ABOUT THE UVULA
THE solid body suspended from the roof of the mouth
between the two tonsils is called columella and gurgulio. Uva
is the name of the affection. The columella (uvula) is of a
nervous nature, but humid, for it is situated in a humid
region. Wherefore this body, the columella, suffers from
various affections, for it becomes thickened from inflammation,
being elongated and of equal thickness from the base to
the extremity, and is attended with redness. Columna is the
appellation of this affection. If it be rounded towards the
extremity alone, and with its enlargement become livid and
darkish, the name of the affection is Uva; for it altogether
resembles a grape in figure, colour, and size. A third affection
is that of the membranes when they have the appearance
of broad sails, or the wings of bats, on this side and on that.
This is called Lorum, for the lengthened folds of the membranes
resemble thongs. But if the columella terminates in a
slender and elongated membrane, having at its extremity a
resemblance to the butt-end of a spear, it gets the name of
