Note 35 — ON THE DISEASES OF Literary and Sedentary Persons.

The disorders of orators and singers are the same; but the bodies of these being open’d, have often shewn inflammations, suppurations, ulcers in the lungs; nay, the illustrious Morgagni saw a young man that had an excellent voice, whose wind-pipe and throat being affected, could swallow nothing, and, whilst he attempted to suck down the yolk of an egg, was suffocated and died. De sedib. & caus. tom. 1. p. 228.