You will say that, in cases of great thirst, the patient's craving decides that it will drink a great deal of tea, and that you cannot help it.
Cheese is not usually digestible by the sick, but it is pure nourishment for repairing waste; and I have seen sick, and not a few either, whose craving for cheese shewed how much it was needed by them.
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their "tea," you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about.
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases, and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
You have no idea what the craving of sick with undiminished power of thinking, but little power of doing, is to hear of good practical action, when they can no longer partake in it.
The craving for "the return of day," which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light, the remembrance of the relief which a variety of objects before the eye affords to the harassed sick mind.
The purely physical craving to take this man and crush him into eternal quiescence had given place to a more terrible mental desire to punish.
Cure that desire--it is more contemptible than the craving that shatters you!
He had been too long without it, too long to endure the craving aroused by that gay draught from Quarrier's loving-cup.
It proceeded from the never-ceasing craving I had for more knowledge of the works of Nature.
While at Huntly, he felt his old craving for Nature returning upon him.
Wherever the Teutonic language was spoken, wherever the Teutonic nature was in the people, there was the same weariness of unreality, the same craving for a higher life.
It is oppressed with the sense of nausea; it is oppressed with the sense of emptiness and prostration; it is oppressed with a sense of distention; it is oppressed with a loathing for food, and it is teased with a craving for more drink.
Some men seem to be free from any alcoholic craving when using tobacco, and say that when they commence to drink they give up the drug for the time being.
Dypsomania, or an irresistible craving for alcoholic stimulants, occuring very frequently, paroxysmally, and with constant liability to periodical exacerbations, when the craving becomes altogether uncontrollable.
When the craving for stimulants is irresistible, it is useless to make an attempt to reclaim and cure the drunkard, unless the detention is compulsory, and there is complete restraint from all spirituous or alcoholic stimulants.
That Carlyle saw this, and saw it so clearly, is no doubt partly due to a cause, of which more must be said directly; to his craving for ideas.
It is possible so to phrase things that the furtive craving of a man for another man's wife may be made out to be a light from God.
For it is very important in this matter to realise that the so-called belief is not really an intellectual judgment so much as a craving of the whole nature.
Later in the same year he wrote a letter in which he shows plainly how his craving for luxurious surroundings as an aid to work affected his financial affairs.
Tausig, with all his genius, was only a boy of seventeen at this time, and he could not satisfy the craving of Wagner for sympathetic intellectual companionship.
Bad Tom Smith, of Perry County feud fame, slew to satisfy this craving for blood.
Such individual acts of savage ferocity can have but one source--an inborn, natal craving for blood.
But I was unable to excite in any breast the same craving appetite for knowledge that existed in mine.
But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion.
She encouraged his craving for knowledge and his impetuous courage; she even tolerated his tameless love of freedom, under the hope that this would, as is too often the case, lead to a passion for command.
While every mind was full of dismay at its effects, a craving for excitement had led us to peruse De Foe's account, and the masterly delineations of the author of Arthur Mervyn.
There are many books which can feed the appetitecraving for these things; let them turn to the accounts of Boccaccio, De Foe, and Browne.
Anything good and substantial to eat and drink, she was always craving for: and it all seemed to do her no good.
Not for him, that's a-craving for meat and drink every hour.
The craving for music pervaded every class--to prince, and peer, and peasant alike, music was as natural a possession as the very air they breathed.
The craving for the rich carrion would be less keen; the zeal of opposition, as usual, would be measured by the stomach, whereon hope and overlooking have always a strong influence.
And so, they artfully came to you, craving any spare jibe to throw against us!
The simple-hearted and affectionate girl, however, in her craving for sympathy, cannot resist the temptation to boast of her happiness to her sisters.
And yet we cannot but pity the poor, weak, craving souls who long so pitifully for the freshness of the morning to continue far into the day and evening--who cling so tenaciously to the fleeting romance of youth.
His seemed to be a nature that would alternate between apathetic indolence and strongcraving for excitement.
And as the manly fingers dealt with the hasp, and the kind smile welcomed her pleasure, Cherry's heart felt that while she had her Felix, Alda need little comprehend her craving for attention from any one.
The Bible does not foster the craving to know the exact situation where sacred things happened, the gratification of which might feed superstition, but could not increase reverence.
The craving for symbolical and sensuous accessories of worship, which is strong in most Churches in this aesthetic generation, is perilous.
Men are slow to appreciate the full force of their cravingfor visible good.
The cravingfor a king was the rejection of Jehovah.
This craving for fresh air helped Matilda in her struggle with illness.
Pathological Effects This feminine craving for martyrdom, of course, often takes on a downright pathological character, and so engages the psychiatrist.
And the more the system is thus reduced in strength, the more craving is the desire for that which imparts a temporary invigoration.
A person who exercises but little, requires no drink, between meals, for health; and the craving for it is unhealthful.
Very often, chewing a bit of cracker will stop a craving for drink, better than taking water; and when teachers are troubled with very thirsty scholars, they should direct them to this remedy.
This process of increasing debility and increasing craving for the stimulus that removes it, often goes to such an extreme, that the passion is perfectly uncontrollable, and mind and body perish under this baleful habit.
It partly satisfied a craving she had felt; it was not exactly the story of the ship, as she had dreamed it, but it was an episode in her experience of it that broke its monotony.
Was it not possible that she was already in part possession of the secret, and her strange attraction to the ship, and what he had deemed her innocent craving for information concerning it, a consequence?
