Caffein does not absorb so quickly and therefore does not act so quickly when taken in the form of tea and coffee as it does when taken as the drug or as a beverage which contains the alkaloid.
The administration in this condition of enormous doses of digitalis by the stomach is inexcusable, and the reason that such patients survive such digitalis poisoning is that the stomach does not absorbduring this cardiac prostration.
Portal depletion is of great advantage, especially if the amount of liquid ingested is kept as low as possible, so that the blood vessels may become thirsty and thus tend toabsorb an exudate wherever they find it.
But such war could not absorb the energy or stimulate the interest of the people as a whole.
An attempt toabsorb the Great Western and thus secure an extension to Windsor came to nothing.
Even Rousseau and Raynal, the apostles of democracy, had no pages that could absorb her so deeply as those of ancient history, with its stirring deeds and immortal recollections.
But what will become of the water if it is allowed to continue to absorb heat?
If a warmer and dryer stratum passes over the one containing the newly formed clouds, then this warmer stratum willabsorb the water-particles of the other.
It forces us to absorb as much as we have paid out.
After a while the three acres began to absorb nearly all his time, so that the hauling, which was the really profitable part of the business, had to be neglected.
The rectum may absorb when the stomach refuses to do so.
The lymphatic vessels, also the lacteals which absorb the chyle, all pass through glands, which are extremely numerous, where certain deleterious substances are extracted from the lymph before it is emptied into the blood stream.
As Griffin habitually slept in a position which enabled him toabsorb his own fugginess, this was not difficult.
And Edwin would press a swab of gauze to the incision to absorb the blood that escaped from the subcutaneous veins.
Evaporation is not a result of accident; it seems an established law that the air shall constantly absorb vapour until it has reached the maximum that it can hold.
In hot, swampy countries, where vegetation is very rapid, and the soil loaded with decomposing carbonic matter, the plants absorb more carbonic acid than they require, and they then evolve carbonic acid gas from their leaves.
Because they contain the elements of nutrition essential to the development of the vegetables, and the plants absorb from them those constituents which are necessary to their growth.
Because they come from the southern regions, heated by the hot earth and sands, and as they cross the sea they absorb a large amount of vapour.
Because, as winds generally consist of dry air, they absorb and bear away the atmospheric moisture.
The bright metal tea-pot would probably absorb less heat than it would radiate.
Because they do not absorb the solar rays, and are therefore cold to the roots of plants.
Because black absorbs heat, and therefore becomes warm; while light colours do not absorb heat in the same degree, and therefore they remain cool.
The colours that absorb and radiate both light and heat do not act in the same degree upon them both.
Because every plant takes something from the soil, and gives something back; but all kinds of plants do not absorb nor restore the elements in the same proportions.
It is publicly reported, that Russia has decided to absorb Turkey; and means to grant Italy to Austria; Belgium, and the Rhenish provinces to France; and the rest of Germany to Prussia.
If our scheme grows to the proportions and with the rapidity which we anticipate, this would in itself absorb large numbers of them.
Here again it is easy to see that, without trenching in the least on the outside public, we should create and support an important industry which would soon absorb hundreds if not thousands of hands.
The invalid is thus soaked out and in with the healing fluid; the pores of his skin, all the passages of his head and chest, his stomach and secretory organs feel the touch of the water and eagerly absorb the medicinal elements it contains.
The Gunnison country boasts several towns of considerable size, some of them the center of a circle of mines which radiates from them, and from which they absorb cash and conviviality.
The meat must be dry or it will absorb the grease.
It is better to heat oats or gravel and fill the shoes to absorb the dampness.
The best flours absorb most, and will take up more in dry than in wet seasons; hence a dry season is good for the baker.
The quantity of water which flour will absorbdepends largely on the proportion and quality of the gluten.
Better than running counter to your enemy, absorb him!
She ran between the four men laboring at the oars, well pleased to have a task that would absorb her mind to the exclusion of all else, and profoundly relieved because it took her away from the vicinity of the dead body.
Gärtner found,[189] that with plants one species could be made to absorb another in from three to five generations, and he believes that this could always be effected in from six to seventh generations.
When two varieties are allowed to cross freely, and one is {174} much more numerous than the other, the former will ultimately absorb the latter.
By repeated crosses a variety or a species may be made completely toabsorb another.
How many generations are necessary for one species or race to absorb another by repeated crosses has often been discussed;[188] and the requisite number has probably been much exaggerated.
When the conidia are sown on water they rapidly absorb the moisture, and swell; the centre of one of the extremities soon becomes a large obtuse papilla resembling the neck of a bottle.
These spores absorball the orange endochrome from the original tubes.
As the parts which absorb nourishment from and consume the substance, they are called the mycelium.
If we absorb all these people, we shall be a curiously conglomerate nation by and by," exclaimed Mrs. Jasper.
For no one dreamed then that the great city would sometime absorb everything, and that here was to stand a beautiful bridge, the pride of the city.
Even after the yarn is spun it is not always ready for the dyer, and in order that it may properly absorb the dye it is often washed and rewashed.
Furthermore, different colour effects are produced by the application of different mordants, which it is necessary to use for the reason that without them many fibrous materials are unable to absorb a large number of the dyes.
A native prince, known as the Tsangpo, with his seat at Shigatse, had made himself master of southern Tibet, and threatened to absorb the whole.
They may be dried so thoroughly that they can easily be reduced to powder yet their vitality is not destroyed but only suspended; on being supplied with water they absorb it rapidly by their general surface and renew their activity.
In Denmark the thoughtful citizen often said, 'We are doomed; Germany can absorb us.
It seemed to be a foregone conclusion that Germany would one day absorb Denmark.
Such portions would, it is probable, be able to absorb moisture, and thus we can account for several of the radicles with greased tips having become curved towards the sieve after an interval of one or two days.
His eyes were small, cold, bright, and were well wadded with such thick eyebrows and eyelashes it seemed these must absorb them.
These details are worthy to absorb the whole daily thought, and they should absorb it, until more thorough comprehension and more matured executive power leave room for larger studies, still in the line of the adopted occupation.
Art," said I to him, "must escape the materialism which oppresses and will at last absorb it.
She sat there with her head thrown back against the frame, and let the night and the high, starry heaven and the moving airabsorb and lift her.
Her memory was not a verbal one, but her very tissues seemed to absorb the sense of what she read.
