Case of Croup in Which the Antispasmodic Treatment Was Adopted
1830; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 3; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1056/nejm183004130030903
ISSN2331-4710
Autores Tópico(s)Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
Resumothe country in which they were made ; and the learned President deemed it probable that they had spread over the whole of the Ro- man Empire, by the authority of the Sybilline leaves.The gene- ral belief which attributed the gift of prophecy to the hour of death is alluded to by many, both of the Greek and Roman authors; and among others, Cicero, no less distinguished as an orator than as a philosopher, in his first hook De JJiviniaiione, mentions that the death of Alexander the Great had been predicted by an Indian about to die on I be pile.In the sixteenth book of (he Iliad, Pa- troclus foretels the death of Hector ; while Hector, in his last moments, prophesies the fall of Achilles by the hand of Paris.The same idea of prophetic power is seen in Virgil, who makes Orodes (lOlh book of 32ne id) predict the death of Me- zentius, by whom he had just been mortally wounded.
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