Retained filth and smegma are far more likely to call a boy's attention to his penis by their unrecognized irritative effects than washing can possibly do.
Abnormal attitudes of the limb occur earlier, and are more pronounced in cases in which pain and other irritative symptoms of articular disease are well marked, and are best illustrated by the attitudes assumed in disease of the hip.
In consequence of continued closure, the secretion soon becomes very profuse, mixed with blood, and of a putrid nature; irritative fever is established.
The patient died in three weeks, from irritative fever, with gastro-enteritic symptoms.
In the same way treatment of irritative or degenerative conditions in the throat and larynx, as well as in the nose, may be considered directly curative.
As in most of the major neuroses, as is known so well in epilepsy, any irritative condition of the digestive tract will surely revive neurotic manifestations and make many of the major neuroses much worse than they were before.
It seems probable that the heart condition was acquired as a consequence of some irritative lesion affecting the inhibitory nerves to the heart that developed at that time.
The cough in these cases, as has been said, is often spoken of as a stomach cough and is supposed to be due to the nervous reflex from the pneumogastric nerve carrying irritative impulses from the stomach to the lungs.
Somehow, then, the habit of taking more salt was formed and its presence reacted to produce irritative conditions in the patient, which, combined with neurotic tendencies, produced the intestinal disturbance.
Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent.
Defn: A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
Defn: A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
It will relieve even the irritative hectic cough of consumptive patients.
It is, for these reasons, much employed in domestic poultices, and in decoction as a medicine for pulmonary catarrhs, hoarseness, and irritative diarrhoea or dysentery.
As an infusion, or syrup, or vegetable extract, it will allay nervous palpitation of the heart, and will quiet the irritative hectic cough of consumption, whilst tending to ameliorate the impaired digestion.
The explanation no doubt is to be sought in the law of the diffusion of reflexes, confirming the diagnosis of an irritative lesion at some point on the trigemino-facial reflex arc.
We can similarly diagnose an irritative lesion of the internal capsule not so much from the objective features of the convulsive movements as from accompanying indications.
That is one reason why whole wheat bread is preferable to white, on account of the bran, which not only supplies the bulk, but favors elimination by its irritative action.
Bulk is especially necessary in the intestinal canal, to supply a certain amount of irritative stimulation, for the purpose of exciting peristalsis.
Has the vaccine matter, by its irritative property, produced a mere blister, the fluid of which has the same irritative property?
The early, irritative cough of incipient pulmonary consumption may be soothed with camphor and opium.
This is especially useful if there be any form of irritative cough or local excitement, such as the aged sometimes experience.
Inhalation of warm vapor, and respiration of air charged with ether, or carbolic acid, will often quiet an irritative cough.
Ringer recommends it in the treatment of the irritative cough so characteristic of fibroid phthisis.
Lesions are often both irritative and destructive, and lead to paralysis of one or more groups of muscles associated with spasms and convulsions of the muscles governed by neighbouring areas of the cortex.
As the tumour increases in size, these irritative phenomena are replaced by localised paralyses.
Pressure on the important nerves traversing the neck may give rise to irritativeor paralytic symptoms.
The first symptoms are of an irritative character--dull pain in the head, restlessness, and hyper-sensitiveness to external stimuli.
When present, they are incomplete, and are chiefly irritative in character.
Clonic contraction of the facial muscles (histrionic spasm) occasionally results from irritative lesions in the cortex or pons.
Irritative phenomena, such as twitchings or contractures, may come on later.
Irritative ideas are those which are preceded by irritation, which is excited by objects external to the organs of sense: as the idea of that tree, which either I attend to, or which I shun in walking near it without attention.
In the former case it is termed perception, in the latter it is termed simply an irritative idea.
The enlarged follicles once destroyed, the collateral irritative inflammation caused by {405} them usually subsides.
Such persons are apt to suffer from irritative and inflammatory forms of dyspepsia, which, in various degrees of intensity, alternate with the acuter forms of embarras gastrique.
According to Eckhard,[3] the phenomena of artificial glycosuria are irritative and not paralytic.
The peculiar irritative quickness of the pulse of ordinary enteritis, according to Powell and Good, suffices to differentiate this disease from membranous enteritis.
Morbid irritativeaction commencing in the stomach repeats itself in the cerebro-spinal system of nerves, and the secondary irritation may develop a more immediately dangerous inflammation than the primary.
He associated it withirritative dyspepsia, hypochondriasis, and exhaustion of nerve-power.
Of course there is a so-called general resemblance among all forms of hyperkinesis or irritative discharge of the nervous system.
Now and again a case will show such anesthetic and paralytic phenomena upon the side exposed to the explosion and some hypertonic, irritative phenomena upon the other side.
The treatment planned for this case of isolated contracture of the supinator longus was surgical operation of the irritative focus.
Perhaps a single root was involved in the irritative lesion.
These promote both the secretions and absorptions, increase the natural heat, and remove those pains, which originate from the defect of irritative motions, termed nervous pains; and prevent the convulsions consequent to them.
To these increased actions of the air-cells are superadded those of the intercostal muscles and diaphragm by irritative association.
A fifth important circle of irritative motions is that of the sanguiferous system, in which the capillary vessels are to be included, which unite the arterial and venous systems, both pulmonary and aortal.
The irritative ideas of hearing are so increased in energy as to excite our attention.
Those things, which increase the exertions of all the irritative motions, are termed incitantia.
The deglutition of our saliva is performed frequently without our attention, and is then an irritative action in consequence of the stimulus of it in the mouth.
The exclusion of the bile from the gall-bladder, and its derivation into the duodenum, is an irritative action in consequence of the stimulus of the aliment on the extremity of the biliary duct, which terminates in the intestine.
In these cases the irritative muscular motions are first disturbed by unusual stimulus, and a disordered action of the sensual motions, or dizziness ensues.
And other irritative motions become decreased, as the pulsations of the arteries, from the extra-derivation or exhaustion of the sensorial power.
As these glands are not usually found enlarged, there being no irritative lesion of the intestines of common occurrence in relapsing fever, it is probable that the collections of pus which have been found were metastatic in origin.
During the remainder of the intermission the pulse may be normal, or it may continue accelerated in consequence of some irritative condition; as the time for the relapse approaches it frequently again becomes abnormally slow.
It is of course diagnosticated without difficulty from the sporadic catarrhal fevers, which lack the characteristic depression, neuralgic and rheumatoid pains, the irritative cough, dyspnoea, and so on.
The fever of the third period has all the characters of an irritative fever, and is probably kept up by the irritation arising from the intestinal ulcers.
Eberth made successful inoculations in living tissues; the micro-organisms, introduced into the cornea, proliferated actively and caused an inflammation of irritative character in the surrounding tissue.
These agencies have, moreover, the marked disadvantage of adding their irritative effects to those incidental to the dermatitis.
These attacks are usually spoken of as recrudescences of fever, and do not differ materially from attacks of irritative fever occurring under other circumstances.
It is thus an agent of immense value where we wish to save the patient from an extreme and agonizing degree of irritative pain, whether to be caused by the edge of a cutting instrument, or by the throes of parturition.
The pain of Neuralgia is generally of the irritative kind.
For irritative pain on the surface Aconite is most efficacious.
It is thus eminently useful in the treatment of that most painful of all disorders, Tic douloureux, or irritative Neuralgia of the face.
It is applicable in local irritative pain at any part of the surface, as in Sciatica, Lumbago, or a Scirrhus of the breast that has not opened.
I believe that a Stimulant is able actually to produce nervous action; perhaps by an irritative operation upon nerve-fibre.
It is thus a most valuable topical remedy in true irritative Neuralgia.
In the same way the various types of irritative conditions, physical and mental, may be considered as exciting moments.
Her lies persisted after an abortion had been secretly produced, but it is to be noted that she now, as a sequel to the operation, suffered from irritative pelvic conditions.
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