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'After the prolonged and exhausting paroxysm of explosive, exhalatory
coughs, an almost desperate, forced inhalation [backdraft]
involuntarily mobilizes the vocal cords in a loud, high pitched,
gasping sound, the "whoop" of whooping cough [pertussis, "the cough",
caused in childhood by infection with H. pertussis.].'
-Schabernacker's Manual of Infectious Diseases [Toledo, 1899]
On Friday, October 6, 2006, at 06:21 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> From Commentary to Line 12: that crystal land"
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> "Medical care was spreading to the confines of the state: less and
> less often, on his tour of the country, every autumn, when the rowans
> hung coral-heavy, and the puddles tinkled withMuscovyglass, the
> friendly and eloquent monarch would be interrupted by a pertussal
> "backdraucht" in a crowd of schoolchildren"
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> "Pertussal" simply pertains to "cough".
> "Backdraucht" is a Scottish term glossed as in (2).
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> BACKDRAUCHT, n. [ˈbɑkˈdrɑxt]
> (1) The drawing in of the breath.
> *Ags.(D) 1922 J. B. Salmond Bawbee Bowden xii.:
> Wi’ the backdraucht [he] sent a moofu’ o’ tea up throo his nose.
> *Fif. 1825 Jam.2:
> We was whaslin like a blastit stirk i’ the backdraucht.
> (2) The gasp of one with whooping-cough.
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coughs, an almost desperate, forced inhalation [backdraft]
involuntarily mobilizes the vocal cords in a loud, high pitched,
gasping sound, the "whoop" of whooping cough [pertussis, "the cough",
caused in childhood by infection with H. pertussis.].'
-Schabernacker's Manual of Infectious Diseases [Toledo, 1899]
On Friday, October 6, 2006, at 06:21 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> From Commentary to Line 12: that crystal land"
>
>
> "Medical care was spreading to the confines of the state: less and
> less often, on his tour of the country, every autumn, when the rowans
> hung coral-heavy, and the puddles tinkled withMuscovyglass, the
> friendly and eloquent monarch would be interrupted by a pertussal
> "backdraucht" in a crowd of schoolchildren"
> ----------------------------------------------------
> "Pertussal" simply pertains to "cough".
> "Backdraucht" is a Scottish term glossed as in (2).
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>
> BACKDRAUCHT, n. [ˈbɑkˈdrɑxt]
> (1) The drawing in of the breath.
> *Ags.(D) 1922 J. B. Salmond Bawbee Bowden xii.:
> Wi’ the backdraucht [he] sent a moofu’ o’ tea up throo his nose.
> *Fif. 1825 Jam.2:
> We was whaslin like a blastit stirk i’ the backdraucht.
> (2) The gasp of one with whooping-cough.
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