quinsy

He'd had the quinsy as a young man, and was still having treatment for it.

This is called a quinsy and needs to be drained in hospital with intravenous antibiotics.

Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.

The next day Jim comes down with "an attack of quinsy" (a severe sore throat) and has to stay inside for a couple weeks.

Immediately after his loss he was seized with an attack of quinsy, from which he died 15 September 1772.

They are but a trap for tonsilitis and quinsy.

Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel.

Its common name is derived from its former use as a medicinal herb to cure quinsy.

George Washington's doctors said the cause was "inflammatory quinsy," a severe infection of the throat, but to this day controversy has surrounded his death.

It was probably of quinsy.

It's hard to know what his doctors meant by 'inflammatory quinsy' in that premicrobe time.

This is termed a peritonsillar abscess (or quinsy).

I caught a quinsy walking up and down Avonmouth pier before I saw my opportunity.

Poor things, each today thought he and he alone knew quinsy, dropsy, glanders, could tell the slaver from the hives.

He suffered many bouts of indigestion and from quinsy, from which he would recover after putting up with great discomfort.

Quinsy Gario (born 1984) is a member of a campaign against what one purports to be racism in the Netherlands.

Quinsy may refer to:

He died of a quinsy in the following month, and was buried in the church of Water Stratford on 22 May 1694.

Quinsy (disambiguation)

He was taken severely ill, afflicted with a serious quinsy, which killed him on 22 Jumada II 564."

George Washington was believed to have died of complications arising from quinsy, but is now thought to have died from epiglottitis.

Pompeius was "immediately struck with a burning fever, after which he lost his voice and was seized with quinsy, dying on the third day."

James Gregory of the band The Ordinary Boys almost died from quinsy because it was left untreated for so long before emergency treatment was started.

Shepard died of quinsy, a Peritonsillar abscess, which is a complication of tonsillitis at the age of 44.

Nedelciu also recounted masking his fear of the disease by only referring to it with the euphemism gâlci ("quinsy").