stertor

Updated: May 14, 2025

Coma with stertor, and a full, bounding pulse, indicates liberal bloodletting. I would try venesection; then cup, if necessary, or leech the temple. I need not say, sir, calomel must complete the cure. The case is simple, and, at present, surgical: I leave it in competent hands."

Charles Reade - Hard Cash

Doctor Walker kneeled beside her, and passed his left hand over her head, while he grasped her pulse with the right. "She has had a terrible blow," said he. "It must have been with some blunt weapon. Here is the place behind the ear. But she is a woman of extraordinary physical powers. Her pulse is full and slow. There is no stertor.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Beyond the City