In a footnote he even refers to the de Mussy lecture in the Gazette hebdomadaire, Jan.
But this is the very group of symptoms on which de Mussy based his theory of gout.
Besides recognizing the urticarial nature of the lesion, de Mussy sought the underlying cause of hay fever and thought to find it in the gouty diathesis.
We have now to consider the fate of the de Mussy doctrine in those countries where hay fever is best known and has been most closely studied, Great Britain and America, Germany and France.
I think that, from the evidence examined, we may say that British and American authors know nothing of de Mussy and his theory.
I might add that de Mussy reports success in preventing the appearance of the symptoms by the use of quinine for seven or eight days before the expected attack.
While most of them ignore de Mussy and his theory in their text, they all list his writings in the Literatur.
It is on these symptoms of gout, the clinical picture of disease, not on any hypothetical uric acid, that de Mussy based his theory and thus far he is on solid ground.
Finally, in my wanderings through German encyclopaedias, I came to the many-volumed Nothnagel and here, at last, found a modern writer who knew de Mussy and recognized the importance of his observations.
Never use clay or putty, it is too mussy and the babbitt is made rough and uneven at the edges.
It is too mussy to have the blacksmith work and the carpenter work mixed up.
Mussy himself was summoned to a country house in Surrey, to see a young lady who was suffering from a dropsy, evidently the consequence of scarlatina.
Patsy stamped slowly up the two flights, and rummaged in a very mussy window-box for a silk waist.
Philadelphia express that night, and a tall, red-cheeked girl in a mussy checked suit left the hotel with a bunch of violets in her hand and a reminiscent smile on her lips.
Tussy-mussy was not a colloquial word; it was found in serious, even in religious, text.
A tussy-mussy was the most beloved of nosegays, and was often made of flowers mingled with sweet-scented leaves.
I lost count of the number of close calls from utter and mussy destruction I had while in London.
No; they have a gentler system than that, one that is free from noise, excitemnent and all mussy work.
Her glance fell from his mussy collar to his backwoodsman's hands, to his feet, so cheaply and shabbily shod; the shoes looked the worse for the elaborate gloss the ferry bootblack had put upon them.
Mussy and Caorches had each received a telephone-message, purporting to come from the duke, countermanding their attendance.
She was weeping frantically into a mussy little ball of handkerchief, and when she saw me she rushed at me and gripped me by the arm like a mad thing.
They were fishing still, but they had both been swimming--I could tell that by their wet hair and by the damp, mussy look of their clothes.
It's a mussy we warn't all burnt to death in our beds, for the snuffers have made a great hole as big as your hand in the tablecloth, and scorched the mahogany table; and it was a mussy I went into your room before I went up to bed.
Why, a-mussy me, sir, I see one looking over the stones yonder with my own eyes.
Annie sat regarding her with a sort of expectation, and the somewhat mussy little parcel of linen lay in her lap.
O Lor' hab mussy on a poor ole niggur, an' bring her safely to her journey's end, for mussy dese chillun hab none!
Mrs. Daniels always had the carpet greasy with cake crumbs wherever she sat, and mother didn't think the Lord liked a dirty church any more than we would have wanted a mussy house.
I didn't fink dat my young misses dat I left ober yander in de grate house by her lone sef, to fend fur hersef und de ole marsa, wud do dis urren ob mussy fur a po' outcast nigger lak ole Ned.
Davis crying for mussy 'cause he hab a wife and piccaninnies at home, he tole 'em.
It's a mussy yo doant goo skrikin like your sister.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mussy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
