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Not ordinary fear of insult, injury or death, but abject, quivering dread of something that you cannot see fear that dries the inside of the mouth and half of the throat fear that makes you sweat on the palms of the hands, and gulp in order to keep the uvula at work? This is a fine Fear a great cowardice, and must be felt to be appreciated.
The entrance into it, the mouth, is armed with thirty-two teeth, fixed in rows in the upper and lower jaws. Above the mouth-cavity is the double nasal cavity; they are separated by the palate-wall. At the back the cavity of the mouth is half closed by the vertical curtain that we call the soft palate, in the middle of which is the uvula.
Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost but not quite to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now, without opening your lips, say 'Garoo." And when you have done it they are not satisfied.
Laterals are possible in many distinct positions. Finally, the stoppage of the breath may be rapidly intermittent; in other words, the active organ of contact generally the point of the tongue, less often the uvula may be made to vibrate against or near the point of contact. These sounds are the "trills" or "rolled consonants," of which the normal English r is a none too typical example.
Examination showed that the fish had firmly grasped the patient's uvula, which it was induced to relinquish when its head was seized by the forceps and pressed from side to side. After this it was easily extracted and lived for some time.
My throat, namely, had become completely sore, and particularly what is called the "uvula" very much inflamed: I could only swallow with great pain, and the physicians did not know what to make of it. They tormented me with gargles and hair-pencils, but could not free me from my misery.
"If I could win you " His tongue tied itself in a bow knot round his uvula, and he could say no more. He moved slowly to the door, paused with his fingers on the handle for one last look over his shoulder, and walked silently into the cupboard where Eunice's aunt kept her collection of dried seaweed.
At times the angina causes such swelling in the throat that the breathing is interfered with completely. For this Arculanus' master, Rhazes, advised tracheotomy. Arculanus himself, however, apparently hesitated about that. It is not surprising, then, to find that Arculanus is very explicit in his treatment of affections of the uvula.
It cannot be too often reiterated that every part of the vocal mechanism must act automatically, and it is not properly controlled until it does. The soft palate also comes in for its share of instruction. I was once taught to raise it until the uvula disappeared. Later I was taught to relax it. Both of these movements of the soft palate were expected to result in a beautiful tone.
He divides its affections into apostema, ulcus, putredo sive corrosio, et casus. Apostema was abscess, ulcus any rather deep erosion, putredo a gangrenous condition, and casus the fall of the uvula. This is the notorious falling of the soft palate which has always been in popular medical literature at least.
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