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Example sentences for "asthmatic"

Lexicographically close words:
asteroids; asters; asthenia; asthenic; asthma; asthmatical; asthore; astigmatism; astir; astonied
  1. In asthmatic coughs, with deranged action of the liver.

  2. The action of the "Discovery" is especially desired in cases that are so far advanced as to be attended with asthmatic symptoms, such as difficult breathing, headache, and a feeling of lassitude and prostration.

  3. They sound a trifle more asthmatic than usual, perhaps.

  4. His whistling lungs gave out every note of the asthmatic scale from the deep and hollow tones up to the shrill crowing of young roosters trying to sing.

  5. He was a former horse dealer, a stout, asthmatic man, always wheezing, coughing and clearing his throat.

  6. I suspect it's that asthmatic affection that has troubled me of late.

  7. Young referred here to an asthmatic affection to which he was subject, and which had begun to give him more annoyance since the catching of a severe cold while out shooting among the hills a year before.

  8. The asthmatic nervous patient gasps with terror at the idea of a chemical explosion in his room.

  9. Or the patient's case may be complicated by other than nervous malady--say, for instance, asthmatic difficulty of breathing.

  10. Tell him he has asthmatic symptoms, or a tendency to the gouty diathesis, and he will at once think of all the asthmatic and gouty old patriarchs he has ever heard of, and be comforted.

  11. Young, however, was soon carried off by an asthmatic complaint, and Adams was thus left to continue his pious labours alone.

  12. Mr. Nelson had long been an invalid, suffering under paralytic and asthmatic affections, which, for several hours after he rose in the morning, scarcely permitted him to speak.

  13. At this point the asthmatic woman reappeared, carrying a laden tray.

  14. They travelled continually, and in all countries, on business affairs, and they remarked that certain localities were extremely hurtful to them, and that in others they were free from all asthmatic symptoms.

  15. These twins were also asthmatic, and asthmatic to a frightful degree.

  16. Various forms of cigarettes are used, comparatively innocuous in themselves, and certainly of no strong therapeutic action, yet they work marvels in loosening the spasm that comes over the lungs in asthmatic attacks.

  17. One of them was a neurotic subject, who, whenever he remained for some time in a stuffy atmosphere, was likely to have a severe asthmatic attack.

  18. Washing out the stomach, for instance, has been followed by prolonged cessation of asthmatic attacks.

  19. Apparently at times human emanations or some peculiarity of odor seems to influence asthmatic conditions.

  20. Very probably the thick smoke, rich in nitrites, has some tendency to relax the spasm in the lungs which causes the asthmatic seizure, but after a time the remedy fails and something else has to be tried.

  21. Occasionally these curious manifestations of a catarrhal or asthmatic character in the presence of cats occur in people who like cats.

  22. I have seen asthmatic tendencies in young women greatly relieved by the use of valerian.

  23. The inhibitory power of the nervous system over spasmodic contraction of the lung tissues seems lost in deep sleep and then the asthmatic condition develops.

  24. I, page 107, has an interesting paragraph with regard to these curious asthmatic conditions which develop in the presence of animals of various kinds.

  25. During the night the patient of asthmatic tendencies had one of his attacks and begged his friend to open the window.

  26. In particularly susceptible individuals, irritable respiratory centers may be affected with consequent asthmatic seizures.

  27. There are many stories of men in the midst of a severe asthmatic seizure being suddenly roused by the cry of fire, or an alarm of some {367} kind near them, having the spasmodic conditions disappear as if by magic.

  28. The more one knows about asthmatic conditions the more does it become clear that special study of individual cases is extremely important for any definite knowledge of the causation in a particular case.

  29. The asthmatic choking which so often made Polwarth's nights a long misery, taught him sympathy with all prisoners and captives, chiefly with those bound in the bonds of an evil conscience: to such he held himself specially devoted.

  30. He dug rather feebly for a gnome, with panting, asthmatic breath.

  31. A smooth mirror-like spot out in the flat in front of the house was the stock-watering reservoir, into which the windmill, seconded by an asthmatic little gas engine, pumped water from the depths.

  32. With a handkerchief stuck in her mouth, and her asthmatic difficulty, you can readily see that an old woman like her could not live long.

  33. No," answered the coroner, "she has been troubled of late years with a severe asthmatic attack.

  34. Madame was seized at that moment with a wheezing asthmatic cough.

  35. But still I am as faithful a barometer, and previously to, and during all falling weather, am as asthmatic and stomach-twitched as when with you.

  36. I have certainly seen several cases of asthma in which spasmodic pain of the heart has occurred on various occasions after or during a very severe asthmatic paroxysm.

  37. He then began to suffer from cardiac pain and spasm after his asthmatic paroxysms, and these new symptoms speedily assumed the form of a very severe intermittent angina: in several of the attacks he appeared about to die.

  38. Bad habits of the body are, however, as difficult to get rid of as bad habits of the mind, and the boy who grows up an asthmatic youth is very unlikely to get rid of the disorder in later life.


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