He had, from the irritability of his constitution, at all times, an impatience and hurry when he either read or wrote.
The relative disposition in regard to the irritability of the external sexual organs as existing in the female, when contrasted with the male, is, for some reason, not sufficiently considered or understood.
Now, would it have been logical to have laid the morbid irritability of its generative organs to its feeble-mindedness, when its feeble-mindedness was fully demonstrated to have been wholly dependent on the sexual irritation?
Much of the irritability of these organs, as well as their decadence at an age some generation or two before the time when they should still possess all their virile attributes, can be directly attributed to this cause.
These irritations from the preputial irritability are not always so slow moving as to span over either months or years in their fell work.
It may well be a question as to whether the feeble-mindedness be not a reflex condition from this excessive morbid irritability of the sexual organs.
It is particularly interesting that even at that early day the reflex neuroses and complications that may arise from the irritability of the genito-urinary organs were so well understood.
Masturbation among the feeble-minded, which is so common, must, of necessity, have for its determining cause a foundation of morbid irritability of the sexual organs.
Irritability APRIL 3 "Irritability is, more than most unlovely states, a sin of the flesh.
At the office of the newspaper where she filled the post of secretary and typist, she was a sort of cheerful institution to smooth worried faces and call up a smile amidst the irritability and frowns.
Thus we may perceive that the triunit consisting of perception, appetence, and motion, constitutes the celebrated irritability of our author.
With Emmeline near me, I can restrain irritability which must have frightened you away.
Thereby any feverish irritability of the urinary organs inflicted by cold, or other nervous shock, would be subordinately allayed.
The root and leaves contain an acrid juice, dispersed by heat, which is of service for irritability of the bladder.
This is specific against sexual irritability and its attendant train of morbid symptoms, with mental depression and vital exhaustion.
This was of admirable [579] service for rubbing along the spine to relieve the irritability of the spinal nerves, and it has proved effectual to modify or prevent epileptic attacks, by being thus applied.
Do not give senna, in any form except confection, in hemorrhoids, and never in irritability of the intestines.
In typhus it is of great benefit when combined with antimonials; and it may be given as a purgative in almost any disease, provided there is not any inflammation of the bowels, irritability of the system, or great debility.
There was a suggestion ofirritability in his voice.
All the day he had shown marked irritability under the constant interruptions to which he had been subjected.
Even Sir Joseph, the least observant of men, noticed that it was put with a perfectly unaccountable irritability of manner.
However, an unprejudiced comparison of the irritability and movements of various higher plants and lower animals convinced many observers, even at the beginning of the century, that there must be a "soul" on both sides.
One night he tossed into consciousness in the ghastly, sickly feeling of dissolution, when all the cells in the boy seem in intense irritability to be breaking down and consciousness makes a last flare of struggle, like madness.
He had not quite got over the feeling of irritability and pain, after having slept on the ground when he was so hot; and a bad conscience afflicted him as he neared the house.
Even then, however, he was not offensive, but one of those people who hurt themselves by their own irritability more than they hurt other people.
Is it not true that much of it merely gives vent to irritability on the part of the fault-finder?
The happy, healthy child does not whine, the ailing child usually does; too often this is the beginning of an irritability that pursues its victim through life.
All companionship, all intrusion, he bore with irritability and impatience.
His former irritability had vanished, and had given place to a sort of dull apathy which but rarely kindled with a gleam of the old passionate fire.
All his judgments are distorted, his views tinged by that bitter irritability of spirit which he ascribes to an unappeased yearning after the ideal, and that is the ground of the incessant warfare between us.
A still more extraordinary instance of irritability is exhibited by the antlia, or instrument of suction of the butterfly.
I want you to make a distinction for yourself, which I make for you, between mere ill-temper, and the irritability that is the result of a goaded state of the nerves.
You are not ill-tempered but quick-tempered; the irritability which annoys you so is a physical infirmity which will disappear the moment you cease to be goaded into it by that exacting mistress you have hitherto been to yourself.
Presently he spoke, with a certain irritability in his tone.
When a man's brain is befogged by the fumes of anger and irritability it can work neither clearly nor quietly, and, when that is the case, it is impossible for him to serve himself or his neighbor to his full ability.
But moral irritability is more serious; that comes from the soul, and is the result of our wanting our own way.
When we feel that kind of irritability we should ignore it, as we would ignore a little snapping dog across the street, while at the same time removing its cause as quickly as we can.
There is an irritability that comes when we are hungry, if we have eaten something that disagrees with us, if we are cold or tired or uncomfortable from some other physical cause.
Imagine the joy of being free from all thisirritability and oppression; imagine the saving of nervous energy which would accompany such freedom; imagine the possibility of use to others which would be its most helpful result!
Yet such is my impatience and hideous irritability that for one which I detain and write down fifty escape me: in spite of my weariness from suffering and want of sleep, I cannot stand still or sit for two minutes together.
