A remedyto repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.
Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp.
A remedywhich restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
At times scathing, at others amusing, the author is never dull, and writes withal, as one who knows from experience the many blots on our system, and honestly tries to remedy them.
In violent attacks of colic, if there is no other remedy at hand, a teaspoonful of salt in a pint of cold water, which the patient may sip, is most speedy in relieving the sufferer.
And seeking for some reason and some remedy for this remarkable phenomenon, a number of patriotic gentlemen have discovered that the Schools, the Schools are to blame.
The rat poison of sound criticism--to follow that analogy--is the remedy here.
If there are, the remedy is so simple and obvious, that I cannot but blame the medical profession for very discreditable silences.
Of all the sciolists, who have offered their services, to remedy this evil, the conscience party is the most remarkable.
The remedy is plain--the fields are before you--carry out "your dead!
We believe that this same observer is still engaged in a series of observations, with the view, if possible, of suggesting some remedy or mitigation of the disease.
A writer in the "Gardener's Chronicle" has proposed a remedy for the hollyhock disease, which he hopes will prove effectual.
I feel confident, that by the application of this remedy in time another season, I shall keep this collection clean.
What are usually called relief works may be a palliative for acute temporary distress, but they are no remedy for the unemployed evil in the long-run.
The remedy for this evil state of things--the only remedy yet suggested--is Socialism.
The question is, Do evils exist at all to-day, and if so, is noremedy available?
Therefore, my idea is that the direction in which a remedy for the unemployed evil is to be sought is in the production of food.
The only remedy they have to suggest is Protection!
The right of giving our votes in secrecy, is the only remedy that can cut off the ascendancy of the more opulent members of the community over the rest, and give us the substance of liberty, instead of cheating us with the shadow.
Mine, in particular, had had such a regular and confirmed shaking-fit, that the disease threatened to be vital, unless some immediate remedywas applied.
To have run away would have given them encouragement: no other remedy was left but to dash through them.
He afterwards said, that he thought it a providential thing that such opinions, however foolish, had been expressed, for it was the cause of his being able to remedy an evil he could not for a moment have foreseen.
To remedythese idolatrous notions of a God, it is requisite to form right and consistent ideas in their stead.
It proved to be a perfect and effectual remedy and very inexpensive, as the naphthalene could be swept up and transferred to other rooms.
The problem is a larger one than keeping the house free from flies; larger but not more difficult, for the remedy is simple, effective, practicable and inexpensive.
If a surface intended to be flat is affected with a slight general curvature, a remedy may be found in an alteration of focus, and the remedy is the less complete as the reflection is more oblique.
In order to remedy this evil, it is directed that no such Persons be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp, or of any forces on the march; and that any now within such lines be immediately excluded therefrom.
In the Inaugural Address I briefly pointed out the total inadequacy of Disunion, as a remedy for the differences between the people of the two Sections.
The--best remedy of all, and the best manner of administering it, lies with the people themselves, of those States where these outrages are perpetrated.
Where is the remedy when you refuse obedience to the constituted authorities?
That is a remedy against a Foreign Nation with whom you expect to be at War.
It is our duty, if we can, to provide a remedy for this.
The only remedy in most cases, when they were disobedient and rebellious, was to raise an army and go forth to make war upon them, as in the case of any foreign state.
He then proceeded to give them an account of the manner in which his fears in respect to his brother had been excited by his dream, and of the desperate remedy that he had resorted to in ordering him to be killed.
He seeing Durin, said to him, Good child, so may God make you a good man as you tell me if there be any place near where I may have remedyfor my wound.
Agrayes took her by the hand and said, good Lady, you do that which is right; and though you are now disherited of your own land, you shall be honoured in another till it please God to remedy your loss.
So having no remedy to give me then, he bade me return to him at a year's end, and at that time he gave me this sword and garland, telling me by the labour of this search to remedy the folly of such a promise.
Galaor answered, better this than to die: if we had been known, all the world could not have saved our lives; and now the remedy is easier than you imagine.
Now, how would you remedy this, and prevent the tenant from becoming the victim either of his rapacity or profligacy?
I tell you, my good friends, that this method of managing things will bring about its own remedy yet.
The Government remedy is first to create unemployment and then to endow it--the shortest and maddest road to ruin since the downfall of the Roman Empire.
This principle introduces a deep cleavage between the Christian remedy and that of political socialism, which fosters discontent and indignation as a lever for social amelioration.
The only remedy is, as Lowell's Hosea Biglow reminds us, to bear in mind that our true country is that ideal realm which we represent to ourselves under the names of religion, duty, and the like.
Christianity considers that, measured by human costs, the remedy is worse than the disease.
For Christianity has its remedy to propose, and it is a solution of the problem of war, not less than of industrial evils.
And yet there is a remedy within the reach of all if we would only try it.
The remedy for extravagance is to give fair scope for the legitimate principle.
Democracy is powerless against sectional anarchism; and when such movements break out there is no remedy except by substituting for democracy a government of a very different type.
In Egypt theremedy was a centralised government which could undertake great irrigation works and intensive cultivation.
The remedy is, to correct our narrowness by a clear view of the wide expanse.
Our remedy is, therefore, not to destroy the institution of Nature, but to reform the candidates who undertake to embrace it.
Such is the remedy proposed by Auguste Comte for the malady of the modern world; this is his revolutionary scheme for the establishment of society on such a basis as would conduce to progress.
They sailed through the open work as mice would creep through antelope nets, and the only remedy was to make mosquito curtains out of cotton muslin, which happily succeeded, but half suffocated the sleepers.
Everybody saw that our only remedy was to make ourselves masters of the Hotel de Ville by means of the people, but I opposed it with arguments too tedious to mention.
This shows that a civil war is one of those complicated diseases wherein the remedy you prescribe for obviating one dangerous symptom sometimes inflames three or four others.
He added that Longueville, too, was of opinion that there was no remedy left but to purge the Houses.
There is nothing so dangerous as flattery at a juncture where he that is flattered is in fear, because the desire he has not to be terrified inclines him to believe anything that hinders him from applying any remedy to what he is afraid of.
If our quack had but humoured this universal indolence with soporifics, the general drowsiness might have continued much longer, but thinking it to be nothing but natural sleep, he applied no remedy at all.
Paul gives us the remedy and it is based upon the injunction that Jesus gave, namely, Love your enemies.
Why not employ the only untried remedy for the ills which afflict civilization?
Have you tried to estimate the service rendered by Reed, who, in finding a remedy for yellow fever, made the tropics habitable and made it possible for the United States to add the Panama Canal to our great achievements?
As the remedycannot precede the disease and cannot be applied until the public becomes acquainted with the disease and has time to choose the remedy, there is always something that needs to be done.
Who will estimate the value of the service rendered by the man who gave us a remedy for typhoid?
Now we have a remedy so complete that of the nearly a million men who reached the battle-line in France not one died of typhoid, and only one hundred and twenty-five of the four millions called to the colours.
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