"Intermittence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... usually by inadvertence, sometimes with suicidal intent. Having recovered from the initial effects of the corrosive agent, the patient suffers from gradually increasing difficulty in swallowing, first with solids and later with fluids. There is the usual variation or intermittence of symptoms that attend upon all conditions causing difficulty of swallowing, the exacerbations being due to superadded spasm of the muscular coat and congestion of all the coats. As the gullet dilates above the stricture, there ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles |
