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OScitatio, Oscitation or yawning is a vehe∣ment distention of the mouth, by halitu∣ous and windie vapours gathered together, in the spaces of the Muscles of the nether-jaw-bone, and of the cheeks, and extimulating or provo∣king the excretive faculty to do its office by ex∣cretion.
Oscitation if frequent without occasion, pre∣sageth
diseases, and is in very deed the praeludi∣um of Fevers: If yawning happen to a woman in travel, it is accounted a deadly sign.
Avicennas contra oscitationem masticationem acori commendat. Vinum etiam cum pari portione aquae aptissimum est.