The needle is passed for a few millimetres along the vein, and the solution is then slowly introduced; before withdrawing the needle some saline is run in to diminish the risk of thrombosis.
If pus forms, small incisions are made, under local anæsthesia, to relieve the tension in the sheath and to diminish the risk of the tendons sloughing.
A slight degree of elevation of the limb is an advantage, but it must not be sufficient to diminish the amount of blood entering the part.
Constitutional treatment consists in taking measures to reduce the arterial tension and to diminish the force of the heart's action.
Passive movements and massage must be commenced as early as possible and be perseveringly employed to diminish the formation of adhesions and resulting stiffness.
Where there is no mole or jetty the hull of an old ship may be sunk at the entrance of a small harbour, to break off or diminish the force of the waves as they advance towards the vessels moored within.
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind.
To diminish the contents of a cartridge, sometimes requisite during heavy firing.
Means employed or proposed to diminish the charge of powder proportioned to a given effect.
It may be added that there seems a tendency to diminish the importance of mathematics as an element of preparatory military education, and to attach slightly more weight to studies of a literary character.
It is a general principle that in leaping from a height of any extent, the soldier should avail himself of anything at hand to diminish the shock of the fall.
Considerably to diminish the number of these schools.
It is undoubtedly true that certain other elements, common under civilized conditions, such as the postponement of marriage in women to a comparatively late age, tend to diminish the size of the family.
The visit of the third son of the Emperor is a proof that there is no desire on the part of his Government to diminish the cordiality of those relations.
So long as this shall continue to be the case the number and activity of our troops will rather increase than diminish the evil, as the Indians will naturally turn toward that country where they encounter the least resistance.
Availing ourselves, then, of the light shed by recent experience upon the subject of primary instruction, it seems possible to diminish the length of the school day with a gain rather than a loss of educational power.
And, lastly, by removing all unnecessary interference with Irish Government on the part of Great Britain, todiminish the causes of irritation and the opportunity of collision.
This increase or reduction of Irish duties will not affect the British Exchequer, but it will increase or diminish the "sum transferred" to the Irish Exchequer.
I had now firmly resolved to free myself from my fatal habit; and the very day I reached home I began to diminish the quantity I was then taking by one grain per day.
Occasional attempts to diminish the quantity, but of no long continuance, and occasional overindulgence during protracted bad weather, furnished the only exceptions to the general uniformity of the habit.
He does not need now to huckster in small bargains between his conscience and the divine law every day, and struggle to diminish the ever-increasing amount of guilt by getting small entries of merit marked on the other side of the page.
You may measure a square surface and find it to contain so many feet of superficial area: suppose you discover afterwards that it has depth as well as length and breadth; to take in also this new measurement does not diminish the old.
To diminish the number of those who are capable of paying it, is surely a most unpromising expedient for encouraging the cultivation of corn.
Years of dearth, it is to be observed, are generally among the common people years of sickness and mortality, which cannot fail to diminish the produce of their industry.
An increase in the quantity of silver, while that of the commodities circulated by means of it remained the same, could have no other effect than to diminish the value of that metal.
Such variations, therefore, tend almost always todiminish the value of a money rent.
Princes and sovereign states have frequently fancied that they had a temporary interest to diminish the quantity of pure metal contained in their coins; but they seldom have fancied that they had any to augment it.
So then, if we would diminish the Mixture of the Rays, we are to diminish the Diameters of the Circles.
In the field of agricultural production, however, little has been done to diminish the anarchy of distribution.
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