The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.
And hence the cramp, or spasm, of these muscles is continued without intermission by this new pain, unlike the alternate convulsions and remissions in epileptic fits.
From hence it would seem, that the center of the eye produces quicker remissions of spectra, owing perhaps to its greater sensibility; that is, to its more energetic exertions.
We hear of remissions made to the extent of ten and fifteen per cent; but these are alleviations only.
The farmer is still a loser, and would be a loser were the remissions infinitely greater.
It is well worth while to lengthen these remissions by setting the patient's mind just as much at rest as possible.
The brevity of these remissions in most cases seems to depend directly on how much the patient is persuaded that his disease will return without fail and run its inevitable course.
Old people do not have these {507} favorable remissions so much as the young, but under twenty there can be, as a rule, definite promise of decided improvement and sometimes of results that seem like complete cure.
These remissions were sold by Rome under the name of Indulgences, and were given for any and every period.
The fever might be great enough to bring on deliriousness, yet had plain remissions and intermissions.
The fever of Lord Guilford was not an intermittent at all, but a "burning acute fever without any notable remissions and no intermissions," a case of the epidemic typhus of that and the succeeding year, elsewhere described.
Large remissions were allowed on the two inferior classes of land.
Remissions were made on the two last classes of land.
As the Season advanced, the Remissions appeared more distinct.
The Remissions were short, and it partook much of the Nature of the common Inflammatory Fever; and most of them were cured by the antiphlogistic Method.
Land Revenue, due to the failure of the kharif crop in the United Provinces and adjacent areas and the consequent remissionsor suspensions.
We know that in times past generous indulgences and remissions of sins have been granted those who should come to the illustrious churches of the prince of the apostles [St. Peter's in Rome].
Vomiting may occur in paroxysms which last for several days or weeks, and then this symptom may improve, perhaps to be renewed again and again, with remissions of comparative comfort.
So ulcer of the intestine is not infrequently a lifetime malady, with exacerbations and remissionsdependent largely upon the prudence or imprudence of the patient with regard to diet.
It is generally continuous, but is subject to remissions and paroxysmal exacerbations.
Dry cupping may also be used with benefit; and if decided remissions occur, with suspicions of a complicating malarious element, a few liberal doses of quinia may be tried.
Christ for new pardons, or remissions of new sins.
And hereby the soul is brought to loathe itself and sin, and is made willing to desire, seek for, accept of, and prizeremissions of sins.
A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
Defn: The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.
Enhancement or remissions will be equitably regulated by it; and, in short, by keeping the actual produce always in view, the shares of the government and of the cultivator must always preserve their due relation towards each other.
As arrears are to be as much guarded against as possible, remissions of rent must sometimes be made.
For his granting remissions and pardons for murderers, which is in the power of no king to do, being expressly contrary to the law of God.
The beginning of the third period is indicated by a diminution of the evening exacerbation, while the morning remissions become still more marked.
If there are two exacerbations, the second one is the higher; the intervening remissions are not so low as those of the prodromal stage, yet even now the norm may be noted on a single occasion.
Remissions are not uncommon, {935} during which the animal remains dull and prostrate.
As a rare exception may be mentioned cases with evening remissions and morning exacerbations.
In remittent fever, however, the remissions are more marked, and are usually accompanied with more profuse sweating, than in typhoid fever.
I must also add that I know of no reasons why remissions afford more favorable conditions for the administration of quinia, beyond the fact that the system is in a better state for its absorption and assimilation.
The morning remissions are less decided than in typhoid fever, especially in the first week.
Toward the close of the second period the morning remissions will be observed to be more decided, while the evening temperature remains about the same as before.
The enlargement of the spleen and liver is much less marked than in remittent fever, and the remissions of temperature are much less decided.
The morning remissions are at first slight, but become marked as the disease approaches its close.
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