Formby was born blind owing to an obstructive caul, although his sight was restored during a violent coughing fit or sneeze when he was a few months old.
Charles then erupts into a coughing fit.
Tim suddenly suffers from a coughing fit and collapses.
Virginia has a terrible coughing fit, a sign of her tuberculosis.
Symptoms are initially mild, and then develop into severe coughing fits, which produce the namesake high-pitched whoop sound in infected babies and children when they inhale air after coughing.
In the final decade of his life, he treated the coughing fits from which he had suffered all his life, with a blend of sugar and opium.
They had also noticed symptoms of sporadic coughing fits and before its death had seen that the potoroo had actually gone into a state of hypothermia.
He would have coughing fits up on stage.
