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Tormina

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Tor´mi`na
n. pl.1.(Med.) acute, colicky pains; gripes.
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50) An account from the 1750s seems to confirm these earlier Portuguese sources which say this was an Indian remedy, though the observer still thought it worked quite well: There is likewise known on the Malabar-coast chiefly, a most violent disorder they call the Mordechin, which seizes the patient with such fury of purging, vomiting and tormina [sic] of the intestines, that it will often carry him of in thirty hours.
Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century western India: evidence ... by Pearson, M.N. / Portuguese Studies
 
 
 
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