"A defluxion of rheum," Tas repeated the words slowly, savoring them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soulforge]

You should put persons on a course of hellebore who are troubled with a defluxion from the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

Such are the symptoms when the defluxion is upon the lungs and heart; but if it be upon the bowels, the person is attacked with diarrhoea.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

For it is melted down by the heat and diffusion of the but it is excreted by the congealing and contracting of it, and thus a defluxion takes place.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

But should the defluxion make its way to the heart, the person is seized with palpitation and asthma, the chest becomes diseased, and some also have curvature of the spine.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

The horse “had a defluxion from the nose at the time of the bargain,” but McFarland “assured Newman it was no more than the ordinary distemper to which colts are subject.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

The defluxion and melting down take place most especially in the case of children in whom the head is heated either by the sun or by fire, or if the brain suddenly contract a rigor, and then the phlegm is excreted.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

Upon vomiting of blood consumption, and a purging of pus upward; upon consumption a defluxion from the head; upon a defluxion diarrhoea; upon diarrhoea a stoppage of the purging upward; upon the stoppage of it death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

When in striplings the defluxion is small and to the right side, they recover without leaving any marks of the disease, but there is danger of its becoming habitual, and even increasing if not treated by suitable remedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

When, therefore, the defluxion is copious, and the season winter, it proves fatal; for it chokes up the exhalents, and coagulates the blood if the defluxion be to both sides; but if to either, it merely induces paraplegia.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

I know a gentleman afflicted with a continual head-ach, and a defluxion on his eyes, who was told by his physician that the best chance he had for being cured, would be to have his head close shaved, and bathed every day in cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Empedocles, that scents insert themselves into the breathing of the lungs; for, when there is a great difficulty in breathing, odors are not perceived by reason of the sharpness; and this we experience in those who have the defluxion of rheum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

For when a defluxion of cold phlegm takes place on the lungs and heart, the blood is chilled, and the veins, being violently chilled, palpitate in the lungs and heart, and the heart palpitates, so that from this necessity asthma and orthopnoea supervene.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

And in some this is the cause of the disease, and in others, when the south wind quickly succeeds to northern breezes, it suddenly unbinds and relaxes the brain, which is contracted and weak, so that there is an inundation of phlegm, and thus the defluxion takes place.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

Of little children who are seized with this disease, the greater part die, provided the defluxion be copious and humid, for the veins being slender cannot admit the phlegm, owing to its thickness and abundance; but the blood is cooled and congealed, and the child immediately dies.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

The immediate symptoms are extreme watering of the eyes after frequent sneezing, confusion of the head, and heavy defluxion from the nose, with pains in the throat extending to the ears; in a word, all the accompaniments of a bad cold, sneezings, lacrymation, pains in the forehead, and a hoarse, hacking cough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

For it does not receive the spirits as much breath as he needs until the defluxion of phlegm be mastered, and being heated is distributed to the veins, then it ceases from its palpitation and difficulty of breathing, and this takes place as soon as it obtains an abundant supply; and this will be more slowly, provided the defluxion be more abundant, or if it be less, more quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

Swelld my lameness greater and my pain more Continual, then they were ten days ago and as an Additional Affliction the defluxion of my.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Robert Carter to the Governor [William Gooch], February 10, 1728] Reference

In advanced stages of the disease, attended with much defluxion from the nose, the cells of the ethmoidal bone and the frontal sinuses are filled with pus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

She accepted the letters, which, however, owing to a bad cold with a defluxion in the eyes, she was unable at once to read; but she talked ambiguously with the messenger.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

'Before I came away I sent poor Mrs. Williams into the country, very ill of a pituitous defluxion, which wastes her gradually away, and which her physician declares himself unable to stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference

As for the light of his eyes, that had gone from him, either with much weeping or by a defluxion of rheum upon them, or perhaps through the lowness of his spirits and the frequent returns of fainting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

Africa had tasted bread; a defluxion had fallen on his eyes, the effect of fatigue or incessant weeping; and he wished to solace the melancholy hours, by singing to the lyre the sad story of his own misfortunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

It was long since the king of Africa had tasted bread; a defluxion had fallen on his eyes, the effect of fatigue or incessant weeping; and he wished to solace the melancholy hours, by singing to the lyre the sad story of his own misfortunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

A periodical defluxion of a thin fluid from the nostrils, for a few hours, occasioned by the retrograde motions of their lymphatics; which may probably be supplied with fluid by the increased absorption of some other lymphatic branches in their vicinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

By a steady perseverance in this practice, which he constantly recommended to his friends, he flattered himself with a long immunity from coughs, colds, hoarseness, and every mode of defluxion; and the fact really was, that these troublesome affections attacked him very rarely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

He hath, besides an ague, a defluxion of rheum upon his stomach, and withall difficultatem respirandi; and which is worst of all he is melancholy and heavy-spirited; so as it is on all hands con - cluded, that his Lordship must shortly leave this world, or at least disburden himself of a great part of his affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

It sounds to me as if Flint is suffering from a defluxion of rheum, "Raistlin replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soulforge]

The defluxion also takes place in consequence of fear, from any hidden cause, if we are the at any person’s calling aloud, or while crying, when one cannot quickly recover one’s breath, such as often happens to children.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

A defluxion into both the veins, or to those on either side, the children survive, but exhibit notable marks of the disorder; for either the mouth is drawn aside, or an eye, the neck, or a hand, wherever a vein being filled with phlegm loses its tone, and is attenuated, and the part of the body connected with this vein is necessarily rendered weaker and defective.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

He has got a defluxion, said the traveller. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

"The first night that I came hither I caught so great a cold, with a defluxion of rheum, as made me keep my chamber ten days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference

From this letter ” written to his Archbishop, to request an extension of his leave ” we learn that while applying for the passports he was attacked with a fever, “which has ended the worst way it could for me, in a defluxion (de) poitrine, as the French physicians call it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sterne]

And if, being shut out from all these outlets, its defluxion be determined to the veins I have formerly mentioned, the patient loses his speech, and chokes, and foam issues by the mouth, the teeth are fixed, the hands are contracted, the eyes distorted, he becomes insensible, and in some cases the bowels are evacuated.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference