The Philosophy of Medicine: Or, Medical Extracts on the Nature of Health and Disease, Including the Laws of the Animal Œconomy, and the Doctrines of Pneumatic Medicine. By a Friend to Improvements. ...C. Whittingham, 1799 - Medicine |
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... violent pal- pitation of the heart ; the hurry of the circulation ; the retrogade motion of the absorbents ; the cold- nefs and palenefs of the fkin ; the inability for muscular action , & c . depend upon the minute arteries not giving ...
... violent pal- pitation of the heart ; the hurry of the circulation ; the retrogade motion of the absorbents ; the cold- nefs and palenefs of the fkin ; the inability for muscular action , & c . depend upon the minute arteries not giving ...
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... Violent exertions of the mind fatigue the frame as much , if not more , than bodily labour , every day furnishes abundant proof . During the late war with AMERICA , when it was propofed to continue on hoftilities , Lord CHATHAM , at the ...
... Violent exertions of the mind fatigue the frame as much , if not more , than bodily labour , every day furnishes abundant proof . During the late war with AMERICA , when it was propofed to continue on hoftilities , Lord CHATHAM , at the ...
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... violent giddiness , which in a few years gradually deprived him of his reason , and he funk at laft into a speechless idiot ; and in the latter end of October 1745 , without even giving an alarm to his attendance , he expired . A man in ...
... violent giddiness , which in a few years gradually deprived him of his reason , and he funk at laft into a speechless idiot ; and in the latter end of October 1745 , without even giving an alarm to his attendance , he expired . A man in ...
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... violent and worthless , founded a general alarm , and accufed the guiltless inhabi- tants of Bedouin of the facrilege committed against the hallowed fymbol of freedom . Without further inquiry a municipal commif- fion was immediately ...
... violent and worthless , founded a general alarm , and accufed the guiltless inhabi- tants of Bedouin of the facrilege committed against the hallowed fymbol of freedom . Without further inquiry a municipal commif- fion was immediately ...
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... , and in a few days afterwards was feized with pains in his back and loins , which not being violent , he was not fufpected to be be in danger ; but daily growing more languid and 58 -Caufe of the death of Savage 58,
... , and in a few days afterwards was feized with pains in his back and loins , which not being violent , he was not fufpected to be be in danger ; but daily growing more languid and 58 -Caufe of the death of Savage 58,
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Page 262 - ... his children — But here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground, upon a little straw in the furthest corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed...
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Page 262 - ... these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh I saw the iron enter into his soul I burst into tears I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my...
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