Crossword-Solution: SEQUELA 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Abortive Treatment.--For many years bloodletting was considered of the greatest importance in the early treatment of this disease; but owing to the fact that, except from traumatism, pericarditis rarely occurs except as a sequela of acute disease after the patient has been sick along time, or as a terminal condition in a patient who has long been chronically diseased and therefore has already lost more or less strength, venesection has been nearly abandoned.

Finished _Woodstock_, however, _cum tota sequela_ of title-page, introduction, etc., and so, as Dame Fortune says in _Quevedo_, "Go wheel, and may the devil drive thee."[231] _March_ 27.--Another bright cold day.

The quinsy, the paralysis of the palate leading to return of the food through the nose, and the difficulty with speech and swallowing are typical results of this affection which was here complicated by a spread of the septic processes into the neck and chest, a not uncommon sequela of the disease.

The special points of interest in this case seem to be the obscure and insidious mode of attack; the slow progress of the inflammation, it being rather sub-acute than acute; and the fact of its being a sequela of pneumonia.

Even as it is, if my wife’s health admitted of moving I’d pitch it up to-morrow and run away--anywhere--ere softening of the brain came on as the sequela of hardening of the heart.