A food Item that is contaminated with irritants can be decontaminated by airing.
And first, it must be laid down as a rule, that all medicines, when given in excess, act as irritants on the stomach and intestines.
Who would administer Strychnia in tetanus, Opium in congestion of the brain, or irritants in Gastrodynia?
Counter-irritants externally, and emetics among internal medicines, are generally admitted as revulsives.
These topical irritants and masticatories are not true Eliminatives.
The tumefaction following upon local treatment, and especially when leeching and counter-irritants have been employed, is sometimes, as he remarks, very perplexing.
In inflammation of the short bones or heads of the long bones, if the action does not yield to topical bleeding and becomes chronic, counter-irritants must be employed.
Irritants cause death by inducing collapse or convulsions, or by exciting severe inflammation; or, after a variable interval, by leading to stricture of the oesophagus.
This division of the class of simple irritants is an important one, on account of the substances composing it consisting in considerable part of ordinary remedies or drugs, which given in over doses, may produce symptoms of poisoning.
They are now recognized as the result of disease--not the cause: releasing irritants perhaps and possibly carriers or transmitting mediums to other diseased or predisposed organisms.
SOAP AND WATER Select a soap free from irritantsand excess of alkalis.
Under an undue retention of fecal matters within the colon noxious products may be formed there, and act as irritants upon the mucous coat, setting up inflammation, followed by ulceration.
In the present state of our knowledge, it seems better to regard the sensitiveness to irritants as the characteristic of these cases and to think of them as different forms of the same disease.
I knew one man whose itching of the eyes began in March, nose and throat following in April and May, cough in July and August, who was sensitive to each and all of these irritants from March to October every year for thirty years.
Inflammation of the stomach may be due to mechanical injury, thermal or chemical irritants or invasion by micro-organisms.
As inflammation subsides, hot applications are used and finally counter irritants are employed.
Thus, the beggar produces ulcers on his legs by binding a penny-piece tightly on for some days; the hospital patient, in order to escape discharge, produces factitious skin diseases by the application of irritants or caustics.
The movement is directly the reverse of that excited by the irritants hitherto considered, which cause the growing part of the * 'Arbeiten des Bot.
The middle layer consisted of granulated absorbent charcoal, which had the property of absorbing large quantities of organic irritantsand phosgene.
Some idea of the German estimate of its importance can be found in the following quotation from Captain Geyer: "The search for new irritants in the sphere of arsenic combinations led to the discovery of a series of effective substances.
Liquid irritants soon came to the front--xylyl bromide and xylylene dibromide--a mixture used later under the name of T.
The filling consisted of some such material as powdered pumice-stone saturated with a solution of potash, and powdered over with fine absorbent charcoal in order to protect against organic irritants and phosgene.
In deep-seated inflammations, counter-irritants are sometimes employed in the form of mustard leaves or blisters, according to the degree of irritation required.
The extent to which the process may go, however, and its effects on the part implicated and on the system as a whole, vary with different irritants and with the intensity and duration of their action.
In acute inflammation caused by the direct action of poisonous irritants they are pronounced and highly diagnostic.
In order to lessen intestinal hyperaemia and allay suffering, counter-irritants and soothing external applications are employed.
Daettwyler under Quincke's direction caused, in dogs with gastric fistulae, ulcers of the stomach by various mechanical, chemical, and thermic irritants applied to the inner surface of the stomach.
Some of these irritants are partly-digested and indigestible articles of food; food taken cold or in excessive quantity; the decomposition of food and consequent distension of the bowel by gas.
The addition of castor oil, turpentine, carbonic acid gas, and other irritants will more likely detract from than add to the efficacy of these measures.
Soothing anodynes are extremely useful locally, and counter-irritants also may be used with benefit.
Constipation impairs the muscular tone of the bowel, and hardened fecal accumulations act as irritants which sometimes provoke acute catarrhal processes--diarrhoea and dysentery.
I agree with him in his statement that counter-irritants are useless, making exception for chronic peritonitis and the early stage of the tubercular variety.
If these means prove inefficient and the inflammatory process grow more {101} indolent, counter-irritants may be conjoined with or substituted for them.
Women seem so full of their sense of possession of a baby that this eloquence is not even observed, and the poor child's nervous irritants begin at a very early age.
This real freedom is the spirit of the kindergarten; but Frobel's method, as practised to-day, does not attack and put to rout all those various nervous irritants which are the enemies of our civilization.
The freedom in mature life gained by a training that would enable the child to avoid nervous irritants is, of course, greatly in advance of most individual freedom to-day.
They are usually very obscure in their commencement; they increase without any limit; they are exasperated by irritants of any kind; and in the majority of cases their reproduction is almost constant, and perfectly incurable.
In the first form of red water a smart purgative (1 pound to 1-1/2 pounds Glauber's salt) will clear away the irritants from the bowels and allay the coexistent high fever.
As this bacillus vegetates and increases in numbers it excretes substances which act as irritants and poisons and which lead to the formation of a small nodule, called a tubercle, at the point of irritation.
Other chemical irritants which I have tried produce substantially similar effects on the paralyzed bell of Sarsia.
Indeed, their value as cutaneous stimulants and counter-irritants appears to have been recognised by the medical faculty of all nations down to the present time.
The organism cannot be forced by irritantsand stimulants and artificial means, but eliminates morbid matter only in its own natural manner and when it is in proper condition to do so.
Accordingly, these poisons show the tendency to accumulate in certain parts or organs of the body for which they have a special affinity and then to act as irritants and destructive corrodents.
Ammonia and turpentine cause blisters; they should not be used as counter-irritants except by a doctor's order, and then only after exact directions have been obtained.
It should be remembered that the action of all counter-irritants is physiologically the same, so that no advantage is obtained from the use of dangerous substances like kerosene and turpentine.
Carelessness in personal habits, manners, speech, and attitude may become irritants that jeopardize romance.
They also follow on weakening diseases, notably strangles, in which irritants are retained in the system from overproduction of poisons and effete matter during fever, and imperfect elimination.
Profuse diarrhea, whether occurring from the reckless use of purgatives, the consumption of irritants in the feed, or a simple indigestion, is an effective cause.
In inflammations due to local irritants of a noninfective kind a careful examination will usually reveal their presence, and the first step must be their removal with a pair of blunt forceps or the point of a lead pencil.
If the eruption has been excessive or confluent, the ulcerations may act as irritants and render the animal unfit for use for several weeks.
If the cramp is due to irritants in the bowels, a cure is not complete until a cathartic of 1 ounce of aloes or 1 pint of linseed oil is given.
Irritants in feed must be avoided, sprains appropriately treated, and stone in bladder or urethra removed.
Decomposition of the detained urine in such cases and the production of ammonia and other irritantsmust also be named.
Internally counteract costiveness and remove intestinal irritants by the same means as in eczema, and follow this with one-half ounce doses daily of hyposulphite of soda, and one-half ounce doses of gentian.
Inflammations of the internal organs are caused by irritants as above, and by sudden cooling of the surface of the animal, which drives the blood to that organ which at the moment is most actively supplied with blood.
Blisters, iodin, and many other irritants are used in a similar way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irritants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
