The sudorific glands over the whole cutaneous surface receive a fresh stimulus, thus assisting to eliminate the materies morbi, and making the skin cool and moist, which prior to drinking the water was dry, hot, and parched.
Quoting the words of Rhazes, Gilbert tells us that the materies morbi of gout is, for the most part, crude and bloody phlegm.
If the color shades away into black, it does not signify necessarily that the materies is simply black bile, for such a color occurs at the close of acute abscesses, or from strangulation of the blood.
For under such conditions we ought to refrain from bleeding, frictions and other treatment which may attract the materies morbi to the part.
Indeed we ought to require derivation of the materies to another part whenever the affected locality contains one of the nobler organs, towards which the material is directing, or may direct its course.
This is most evidently true in podagra, unless the materies morbi, by reason of its scarcity, produces no enlargement of the affected part.
At one time the materies morbi, or discharge, affects the skin; at another, the digestive mucous membrane.
The Kroomen, or natives on board the ship had not suffered, shewing that they were inured to the miasm, or were destitute of that condition of blood which would be favourable to a propagation of the materies of the disease.
The nebulae before Lord Ross's discovery were to the astronomer what the materies of epidemic and infectious disease are to medical men.
All the above causes do probably play their part so long as the materies morbi (if that really exist either as a chemical principle or as a germ) has not been wholly eliminated or destroyed.
Tincture of Cantharides and Acetate of Potash, both diuretics, have been employed in Lepra to eliminate the materies morbi from the blood into the urine, and have sometimes appeared to succeed in so doing.
But when the materies morbi is still working in the blood, a radical cure can only be effected by a Catalytic medicine, which shall be capable of meeting it there, and of counteracting its noxious influence.
In this form of pyæmia it has been supposed by some authors that the materies morbi occasionally produces death before the metastatic abscesses have had time to develop, but this is not always the case.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "materies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
