No doubt, in many instances, its action as a revulsive may be beneficial; and urtication, or the stinging with nettles, has not unfrequently been prescribed with advantage.
Many casual circumstances may check the mechanism of its action, (if I may be allowed the expression,) and affect its results.
There must be some peculiar susceptibility of the system in their case which renders them especially vulnerable to its action.
The effect of impure air inits action on the heart is thus spoken of by Dr.
The only thing which will render it easy of removal is soap, as by its action it softens the oily material and dislodges it from the skin.
The system, however, gradually becomes habituated to its action, and these symptoms do not reappear.
It is superior to digitalis in never disagreeing with the stomach, in having no distinctive cumulative tendency, and in the promptness of its action.
Its action in the body apparently rests on an increase of the fibrin ferment.
The percentage of these volatile substances in a cup of coffee infusion is so low as to be relatively negligible in its action.
It is pronouncedly inferior to digitalis in the power and certainty of its action, and in the permanence of its influence once asserted.
These are not brought forward as uncommon occurrences, but as exemplifications of the human system's susceptibility of the variolous contagion, although it has been previously sensible of its action.
Its action may be greatly accelerated by rubbing and churning the bowels.
Its action on the digestive organs (especially the stomach) is disastrous in the extreme.
It is often mischievous as well as anomalous in its action.
It is curiously uncertain and irregular in its action.
The great oblique, by its action, pivots the eye inward and upward in the orbit.
Mercury is also readily absorbed through the skin, and as cattle are very susceptible to its action it is thus easy for them to be poisoned by it even without licking it from the surface.
Animal poison is by no means uncommon, and so quick and mysterious is its actionthat a prompt remedy is a vital necessity.
The paucity of remedies is so great that alcohol is the one which comes most quickly to the mind of those who have been taught in the traditions of the past, and who are not fully aware of its action on the human system.
Richardson at a medical breakfast in London in 1895, stated that though alcohol produced an increase in the motion of the heart it was ultimately weaker in its action, so he resolved to give up using such an agent.
The body is kept in repair by this living matter, and all the functions of the body are but the result of its action.
For every operative science is the more perfect, the more it considers the particular things with which its action is concerned.
Now, everything that produces something by its action, produces something like itself, as to the form by which it acts; just as man begotten is like his begetter in his human nature, in virtue of which the father has the power to beget a man.
Further, if a body is an agent, the term of its action is either a substantial, or an accidental form.
Further, every agent except the first agent requires in its work a subject susceptible of its action.
Further, the more powerful an agent is, the more extended is its action.
The actual working of the National Liberal Federation is well illustrated by its action in regard to the Boer War, a matter on which the Liberals were divided.
Its action must, therefore, be of an informal character.
The last four of these are short pieces written in a prose extremely rapid in its action, and crowded with incident.
Their force to its depth, its contiguity to the earth, and the intensity of its action; and the scud, are but patches of condensation, occasioned by the same inductive action which affects and attracts the surface current in which they form.
The homological nature, however, of a tendril seems to make no difference in its action.
Plants become climbers, in order, as it may be presumed, to reach the light, and to expose a large surface of their leaves to its action and to that of the free air.
The author made some years ago an investigation as to its action on the common blow-fly.
But the best test is its action on an ethereal solution of nitro-cellulose.
Creasote is, without doubt, poisonous, though but little is known of its action, and very few experiments are on record in which pure creasote has been employed.
The chief point of difference appears to be its action on the heart.
His idea was that it was too quick in its action, and, since water is slightly compressible, a minute fraction of time is required in the development of the full force of the explosive.
Its action on the kidney is actually a vasodilator one.
As its action is purely mechanical it may be taken indefinitely without doing harm to the intestinal musculature.
And in its action on the heart the digitonin dilates the coronary arteries, according to Macht, while the digitoxin acts on the heart muscle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
