Before we commence this Section on Diseased Voluntary Motions, it may be necessary to premise, that the word volition is not used in this work exactly in its common acceptation.
Other hereditary diseases, as the epilepsy, and other convulsions, consist in too great voluntary exertions in consequence of disagreeable sensation in some particular diseased part.
Periods ofdiseased animal actions from stated returns of nocturnal cold, from solar and lunar influence.
This is well known in the distilleries, where the swine, which are fattened by the spirituous sediments of barrels, acquire diseased livers.
But any other part of the venous system may become quiescent or totally paralytic as well as the veins of the intestines: all which occur more frequently in those who have diseased livers, than in any others.
At the first blush it seems very cruel for the Jewish God to order the diseased and unfortunate to be thrown out of the camp and left in the wilderness.
In a philosophical sense, there lies back of all manifestation of diseased action, an antecedent condition, which is the soil from which morbid actions spring.
In the great hospital of Vienna children lay in crowded wards, with twisted limbs and bulbous heads, diseased from birth, because of their mother's hunger and a life without milk and any kind of fat.
I grant you there is such a thing as inherited disease, but this could be prevented in a great measure by making the marriage of diseased persons a criminal offence,--while much of it could be driven out by proper care in childhood.
At last I fell asleep, to dream of every incongruity and încoherency that ever haunted a diseased brain.
You won't mind the facts that he thinks all poetry the secretion of a diseased brain, and that the only reason he doesn't think all brains (except his own) diseased is the circumstance that not all secrete poetry.
Our intrusive visits, as some would call them, into filthy and diseased houses, benevolent as they are, on behalf of those who cannot always help themselves, have example even in the most remote times and from the highest authority.
Try and compose yourself, Matt," said Septimus sadly, for he now felt that the whole history of the entry was but the offspring of a diseased mind.
The tendency of the dominant side of a character towards diseased exaggeration is a fact of daily observation.
Here they were, most of them from mere curiosity, some of them no doubt with deeper feelings; here they were, with their diseased and their demoniacs, and as soon as His foot touches the shore He is in the midst of it all again.
His healing of thediseased speaks of His restoration of sick souls.
No doubt Utopia will kill all deformed and monstrous and evilly diseased births, but for the rest, the State will hold itself accountable for their being.
A huge memory, stored with the promiscuous rubbish of libraries, and with facts which were transformed into rubbish by his treatment of them, was combined in him with a diseased imagination, and a personal vanity almost surpassing belief.
The severity of the famine may be judged from the fact that out of five hundred persons at the beginning of the six months, only sixty diseased and moribund wretches survived.
It is, indeed, occasionally prescribed as a curative by ignorant physicians, and those who are willing to pander to the diseased appetites of their patients.
In consequence of this alliance with the skin, these parts are more intimately connected with each other, in both healthy and diseased action, than with other organs.
But from false desires, or diseased appetites, acting without the aid of experience and understanding.
In other cases the patient may not have been diseasedat all, and, of course, there was nothing to be recovered from.
As a rule, however, it is unwise to set the bowels in vigorous action until the diseased appendix has been removed.
But in a fortnight or so, when everything has become once more quiet, he will urge the removal of the appendix, for this one attack is more than likely to be the forerunner of other attacks if the diseased appendix is left.
To carry about a diseased appendix is to run the constant risk of being laid up at a time most inconvenient, as when travelling or when staying in some place where skilled assistance is far distant or absolutely unobtainable.
These symptoms may prognosticate the approach of various diseased conditions, partly owing to the habits, constitution, or surroundings of the patient.
They look on it, with the best of reasons, as a diseased condition, which does not necessarily, in persons of high principles, lead to vicious and unnatural practices.
They vie with the loathsome practices of the Kaffirs and the most debauched Roman emperors, while some of them are so vile that it seems as if they could have been suggested only by the diseased brain of an erotomaniac.
Now, the Science of life is Physiology, taking physiology in its widest sense, that is to say, the study of normal beings and of diseased beings.
Even pathology, the science of the diseased organism, is very instructive for the philosopher.
It was still believed that these arise from diseased parts of the host-animals in which they live, until about the middle of the nineteenth century.
This fundamental principle of the modern cell-theory was applied with great success by Rudolph Virchow to the diseased organism, and led to most important reforms in medicine.
The study of the diseasedorganism has greatly furthered our knowledge of the normal frame.
Gastroenterostomy and pylorectomy are operations devised for the relief of malignant disease of the pylorus, the diseased portions being removed and the parts resected.
Following some toxic or thermic disturbance, or in diseased kidneys, suppression of urine is quite frequently noticed.
Schmidt's Jahrbucher for 1836 gives an account of a woman who had diseased ovaries and a rectovesicovaginal fistula, and though sometimes catamenia appeared at the proper place it was generally arrested and hemorrhage appeared on the face.
At the operation he had removed the diseased area at the apex of the right lung, together with sound tissue for two cm.
At this time they had diseased and atheromatous arteries, and Chang, who was quite intemperate, had marked spinal curvature, and shortly afterward became hemiplegic.
An operation was performed in which all of the diseased structures that had totally unmanned him were removed, the true organs of generation escaping inviolate.
