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Example sentences for "certain diseases"

  • His last publication was, On the Influence of Artificial Eruptions in Certain Diseases (London, 1822), a subject to which he had given much time and study.

  • He first advocated the modern stimulant, or "feeding treatment" of fevers, and first recognized the usefulness of animal soups and beef-tea in certain diseases.

  • It also varies with the period of life, young subjects being more susceptible to certain diseases, e.

  • A Clinical Memoir on Certain Diseases of the Eye and Ear consequent on Inherited Syphilis, London, 1863.

  • One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

  • To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

  • A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

  • Certain diseases predispose to abdominal fermentation as inflammatory diseases which effect the peritoneal covering of the organs, and cause a swollen abdominal wall after death.

  • In certain diseases, when a body is to be shipped, the law compels the embalmer to wrap the body in cotton.

  • In certain diseases of the heart, lungs, and liver, for example, the venous pressure may be so raised as to cause a localised dilatation of such veins as are congenitally weak.

  • Some persons are insusceptible to infection by certain diseases, from which they are said to enjoy a natural immunity.

  • These doubts resulted in great controversies as to the proper treatment of certain diseases, some physicians following Hippocrates, others Galen or Celsus, still others the Arabian masters.

  • As it happened, another equally specific remedy, mercury, when used in certain diseases, was already known to him, but he evidently did not recognize it as such.

  • He found that "the action of the heart was accelerated, the circulation increased, and that muscles were made to contract by the discharge": and he began at once administering electricity in the treatment of certain diseases.

  • Facts Relating to the Spread of Certain Diseases.

  • While alcohol cannot be classed as a food, it is believed by some authorities to contain food value and, in the hands of the physician, to be a substance capable of rendering an actual service in the treatment of certain diseases.

  • Complexion, and liability to certain diseases, are believed to run together in man and the lower animals.

  • The races differ also in constitution, in acclimatisation, and in liability to certain diseases.

  • They are sympathetically affected under the influence of certain diseases, like the same organs in the female.

  • Hence, as I have heard it remarked, certain diseases appear to gain strength by the intermission of a generation.

  • We find different degrees of adaptation to climate, and different tendencies to certain diseases, to the attacks of parasites, and to the action of certain vegetable poisons.

  • These facts were brought forward to explain immunity shortly after bacteria were shown to be the cause of certain diseases.

  • In medical practice the reaction is used as a means of diagnosis in certain diseases, such as the tuberculin test in tuberculosis, the mallein test in glanders.

  • If the delirium that occurs in the course of certain diseases should be continued, the patient would be judged insane.

  • In this paper I formulate a theory which I hope will harmonize a large number of clinical and experimental data, supply an interpretation of certain diseases, and show by what means many diverse causes produce the same end effects.

  • To distinguish certain of these prenatal effects, particularly those of certain diseases or poisons, from true hereditary influences they are frequently spoken of as cases of transmission rather than inheritance from parents.

  • Lastly, it is well known that various animals, including man, after recovery from an attack of any one of certain diseases, become more or less immune from further attacks of the same disease.

  • It is sometimes produced in the course of certain diseases, of which it may be considered a symptom or a crisis.

  • Certain diseases of the heart and lungs act upon the function of respiration, and thus interfere with the due oxygenation of the blood.

  • When the brain acts, it ordinarily assumes the control of the cord; but there are times, especially during the course of certain diseases, when the latter obtains the mastery over the superior organ and dominates with terrible power.


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