It is believed that a deficiency of oleaginous matter is a predisposing cause of tuberculous disease.
Amongst the many predisposing causes of obesity we may rank emasculation.
These impressions only predispose the mind to certain ideas, which act upon it with more or less subsequent energy, and with more or less irregularity, according to the condition in which the predisposing causes have left it.
Fasting has ever been considered as predisposing to meditation and ascetic contemplation.
In diseases of a syphilitic character, he had found his mode of treatment infallible; and he therefore concluded that all obstinate and rebellious affections were the result of some other constitutional predisposing circumstances.
Nevertheless, cases are occasionally seen which arise without these predisposing circumstances.
The system of their trade is another predisposing cause.
For obvious reasons the predisposing causes should always be taken into consideration.
Even if there be no symptoms necessitating immediate interference, operation is usually indicated owing to the fact that cholesteatoma is the commonestpredisposing cause of intracranial suppuration and septic thrombosis of the lateral sinus.
Up to this moment my mind had been more concerned with the stark fact of Graeme's death than with the predisposing cause.
The fact of a brain lesion was fully established, as I'll explain later, but I'm not at all satisfied as to the predisposing cause.
The prevention of colds consists, first in avoiding the infection, and, secondly, in guarding against the predisposing causes.
Muscular debility and undue laxness of ligaments resulting from disease or previous dislocation are also predisposing factors.
Chronic superficial glossitis associated with leucoplakia, and syphilitic fissures, ulcers, or scars, also act as predisposing factors.
Laxity of the ligaments and knock-knee arepredisposing factors.
The most important local factors predisposing to flat-foot are weakness of those muscles which normally support the ankle and the tarsal arches, especially the tibiales; weakness of the ligaments of the foot; and softness of the tarsal bones.
These and other facts justify Marshall Hall's conclusion that cold is merely a predisposing cause of hibernation in the sense that it is a predisposing cause of ordinary sleep.
Individuals subject topredisposing causes may live the natural term of life and finally die of other disease.
The predisposing causes are conceded to be assimilative and nervous debility.
The predisposing causes are an hereditary tendency to the disease, and everything which impairs the constitution and produces nervous prostration and irritability.
The chest is liable to become flattened in front and arched behind, in consequence of the difficulty of respiration, thus predisposing the patient to pulmonary disease.
As the predisposing or real cause of catarrh is, in the majority of cases, some weakness, impurity, or otherwise faulty condition of the system, in attempting to cure the disease our chief aim must be directed to the removal of that cause.
Indeed, when predisposing causes are known to exist, they should constitute a warning for the avoidance of other causes.
The predisposing causes of erythema are constitutional debility, changes of climate and temperature, and irritating food or medicines.
When the colon is distended, it becomes a mechanical impediment to the free circulation of the blood in other organs, and causes congestion of the portal system, predisposing to chronic inflammation or cirrhosis of the liver.
The predisposing cause of impetigo is nutritive debility, and the exciting causes are irritation, impure air, and errors of diet.
Syphilis, phimosis, sexual abuses, uterine disease, and the use of alcoholic liquors are prominent predisposing causes.
The general division of causes into predisposing and exciting, must ever be more or less arbitrary.
Occupations requiring standing or walking are strong predisposing causes, provided a tendency to the disease exists.
Heavy clothing and other equipment, by increasing fatigue, also has a predisposing influence.
When it occurs in old age, it acts as a predisposing cause, but when it occurs prematurely or reaches an extreme degree, it must be considered as pathologic.
The causes of traumatic fractures may be eitherpredisposing or exciting.
It apparently comes from no predisposing uneasiness of indigestion, no rashness in the matter of too much tea or tobacco, no excitation of unusual incident or stimulating conversation.
Its predisposing cause is a chart or map, and its main symptom is the feverish delight with which you check off the landmarks of your journey.
Moreover, if heat were a predisposing cause of suicide, we should find the suicide rate of Europeans much higher in the tropics than it is in the north temperate zone; but such is not the case.
General weakness of the constitution or of the blood-vessels and habitual constipation may be predisposing causes of piles.
Another very important class of predisposing causes of angina is the mental emotions.
On this point I am obliged to disagree in toto with the popular view that assigns these diatheses among the most frequent predisposing causes of neuralgia.
The persons in question are children who belong to families known to be infected with tendencies to neurotic diseases, or persons whose daily occupations submit them to peculiarly strong predisposing influences of an external kind.
Of predisposing causes, the majority are the same as those of which we have spoken in our general remarks on the etiology of neuralgia.
The provisional assumption with me concerning smallpox, is, that wherever its predisposing causes exist, there the disease will not long be absent.
Predisposing causes cannot long accumulate and fester, without curdling into vital action.
They thought that the human virtues and moral dispositions of unregenerate men were the predisposing circumstances which, by a sort of fitness, made them the objects of the divine goodness in according the benefits of his grace.
Let us set down a list of the more common of these causes, not with the expectation of having the list complete but rather of giving facts about the representative or more common Basic Predisposing Causes of Stuttering and Stammering.
The heat which they maintain about the body is inconvenient and dangerous, predisposing to flooding and exhausting perspirations.
A sudden chill may result in a number of derangements and is supposed to be a predisposing cause of colds.
A noted authority states that "alcoholism is perhaps the most potent predisposing cause" of pneumonia.
To all this we have to add his jealousy of Lysander, as an important predisposing motive, but only as auxiliary among many others.
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