On theEfficacy of Nitrate of Silver in the Treatment of Zona or Shingles.
In regard to the medical efficacy of the protoxide obtained in this way, Mr. EVANS reports the following to be the results obtained by Dr.
Cases of Nervous Irritation, exhibiting the Efficacy of Cold as a Remedy.
Of chorea treated with iodine, and showing theefficacy of the remedy, Dr.
Facts are not wanting to prove the efficacy of spices in preventing intestinal complaints.
Experience has not yet sanctioned the benefit of copious bleeding from the arm, in incipient disease, or irritation verging to inflammation of the intestinal surface, as in small-pox; while its efficacy is admitted in measles.
Many similar {9b} cases are recorded by the older inhabitants, which proved beyond doubt the efficacy of the water in the ailments of man and beast, especially for rheumatism and skin diseases.
How ornament poeticall is of two sortes according to the double nature and efficacy of figures.
Instances of this kind have excited the astonishment of physicians, and confirmed a pious belief in the efficacy of those prayers.
In the "Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude" we find many instances of the efficacy of prayers for the dead and how pleasing to God is devotion to the souls in Purgatory.
It was through the efficacy of St. Gregory's intercession that Dante afterwards finds Trajan in Paradise, seated between King David and King Hezekiah.
It was reserved for Jenner to discover the efficacy and introduce the practice of vaccination, or the introduction of the virus of the cow-pox, more than fifty years afterward.
It was during the preceding year that Jenner, a young English surgeon, had made his famous discovery of the efficacy of vaccination.
The Sharon Sulphur Springs have been celebrated for their medical properties many years, and are said to be equal in efficacy to those in Virginia.
At this period belief in the efficacy of prayer was unbounded, and praying for the living was as much part of the work of the professed as praying for the dead.
In the ballad we hear of Christian knights coming to engage in fight from exactly that same belief in the efficacy and divine institution of holy wars, as animated the Arab champions.
It occurs in brilliant scales, and is said to possess peculiar efficacy in certain forms of anaemia and chlorosis.
Its efficacy depends on the gradual extrication of free ammonia by the decomposition of the sal ammoniac, on which account it is proper to renew the application of it every 24 hours.
It has the advantage of retaining its efficacy for many years, and is less dangerous to human beings than compositions containing arsenic, whilst it is even more effective for the purpose for which it is employed.
It should be of a brownish-black colour; if over burnt its efficacy is destroyed.
The efficacy of the process, according to Liebig, depends on the elimination of substances which impede the oxidation of the oil.
Does the German conscript believe in the efficacy of his leaders?
I say nothing here about the efficacy of inoculation.
And this scrupulous feeling, originally founded on the supposed efficacy of words, prevails to this day.
But though our knowledge in these respects is limited, our judgment with regard to the efficacy of this power of heat is in its nature positive, and contains not any thing that is doubtful or uncertain.
His manner as a whole, though compound, indicated with some clearness that while he adhered to his belief in the efficacy of prayer, he could not allow his son to accept from George earthly penknives alleged to have descended from heaven.
The Palace Porcelain Company, who had believed in the efficacyof printed advertising matter and expensive catalogues, owed Edwin a hundred and eighty pounds.
He was praying out of his profound impersonal interest in the efficacy of prayer.
He established the perfect efficacy of penance against the Novatians, who, though the boldest and most insolent of men, seemed like children without strength before this experienced champion, as St. Gregory of Nyssa assures us.
It must be a persistent gas which can retain its efficacy for thirty long and adventurous years.
Legend has it that such must never request payment for services, nor must the patient ever thank him, lest the efficacy of the cure be nullified.
Garrison's championship of the cause of the slave had started with strong faith in the efficacy and disinterestedness of the colonization scheme as an instrument of emancipation.
This was discouraging to the believers in the efficacy of colonization as a potent anti-slavery instrument.
He was on the Fourth of July a firm and earnest believer in the equity and efficacy of gradualism.
She tried first moral suasion to induce him to abandon the habit, and once, in a moment of wifely and motherly indignation, she broke up one of his drinking parties in her house by trying the efficacy of a little physical suasion.
To desire to see the excellencies of each style united, to mingle the Dutch with the Italian School, is to join contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other.
Whatever advantages method may have in despatch of business (and there it certainly has many), I have but little confidence of its efficacy in acquiring excellence in any art whatever.
Their votaries believe in the efficacy of magic, charms, and incantations.
Of any inherent efficacy in these antecedents to produce their consequents, it can affirm nothing.
The sages of the tribe found out at length, however, whence the efficacy of the stream arose.
The force of this, however, is limited to the ceremony;--its character and efficacy are not established by it.
If mind-cure should ever become official, respectable, and intrenched, these elements of suggestive efficacy will be lost.
Some philosophers, among others the illustrious Malebranche, have denied the efficacy of second causes, thus reducing them to mere occasions.
Hugh pulled the fingers down and again tried the efficacy of his lips.
