'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 [<italic>pertussis,
"</italic>the cough", caused in childhood by infection with <italic>H.
pertussis</italic>.].'   

	-Schabernacker's Manual of Infectious Diseases [Toledo, 1899]


On Friday, October 6, 2006, at 06:21  PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:


<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>From Commentary to
Line 12: that crystal land"</smaller></fontfamily>

 

 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>"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"</smaller></fontfamily>

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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>"Pertussal"  simply pertains
to "cough".</smaller></fontfamily>

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>"Backdraucht" is a Scottish
term glossed as in (2).</smaller></fontfamily>

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<bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><color><param>6666,0000,FFFF</param><smaller>BACKDRAUCHT</smaller></color></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>,
<italic>n</italic>.
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    <color><param>6666,0000,FFFF</param>(1)</color> The drawing in of
the breath.

    <bold><color><param>AAAA,0000,0000</param>*Ags.(D)</color></bold>
<bold>1922</bold> <color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>J. B.
Salmond</color> <italic><color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Bawbee
Bowden</color></italic> xii.:

    Wi’ the backdraucht [he] sent a moofu’ o’ tea up throo his nose.

    <bold><color><param>AAAA,0000,0000</param>*Fif.</color></bold>
<bold>1825</bold>
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param>Jam.</color></smaller>2<smaller>:

    We was whaslin like a blastit stirk i’ the
<italic>backdraucht</italic>.

    <color><param>6666,0000,FFFF</param>(2)</color> The gasp of one
with whooping-cough.

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