Death in the acute stage of a first attack of inflammation of the heart is of extreme rarity, but the damaged heart is liable to returns of acute mischief, any one of which may prove fatal.
It is at least temporarily exhausted by a first attack, though in exceptional cases and under a strong dose of the poison a man may be affected a second time.
A second or third attack of delirium tremens is much more dangerous to life than a first attack.
In a first attack of ague we may look with much confidence toward the speedy cure of our {170} patient under quinia.
Employing those cases only for statistical purposes in which the patients have survived the first attack, he finds that the difference at once disappears, there being 9 per cent.
The same author has also shown that secondary attacks are most common in the young; so that advancing age not only renders a first attack of the disease improbable, but lessens the risk of a recurrence of it.
At the other extreme Garrod reports a first attack at the age of eighty, and another in the ninetieth year.
A first attackis usually much severer than subsequent ones, and suppurative cases more severe than those terminating by resolution.
While convalescing from my first attack of swamp-fever, I had occasion to study a most remarkable species of spider which was a fellow lodger in the hut I then occupied.
As so much depended upon the success of a first attack on the Peruvians, who not only outnumbered us, but also were armed with Winchesters, the blow-guns were in the hands of the older and more experienced men.
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