He may not suffer in his general health, however, to any serious extent, and may live on for twenty years, though usually his resistive vitality is lowered and he is carried off by some intercurrent disease.
But as a rule, she was not resistive to passive motions when tested.
When interfered with, she was resistive and sometimes let herself fall out of bed.
She had to be tube-fed, was usually very resistive to any passive motions; quite often she retained her urine, but she did not hold her saliva.
Four months after admission she was noted as being very resistive and negativistic, allowing saliva to accumulate in her mouth and making no attempt to keep the flies off her.
She soiled, refused food, and was resistivewhen anything was done to her.
She was never resistive and always ate and slept well.
The case being recognized after a few days as a psychosis, she was sent to the Observation Pavilion, where she was described as jumping about in bed in a jerky, purposeless manner, resistive when anything was done for her, and mute.
At the Observation Pavilion the patient was described as constrained, refusing food, mute, resistive of attention, sometimes muttering to herself and having the appearance of uneasiness.
Usually, even when she got less resistive towards the end, she was essentially apathetic.
Lies in bed with fixed gaze, pointing upward with her finger and is very resistive towards any interference.
At times she was quite stiff and very resistive but never cataleptic.
She had to be tube-fed a good part of the time, was quite resistive when an attempt was made to open her mouth.
He may seem in perfect health so long as there is no special change of conditions, but when he is placed in a position where he needs his resistive forces to throw off disease, he finds that he cannot command them.
We must give him endurance, quickness of response, and resistive force.
AS THE YEARS GO ON The first thing that a man begins to lose through the inroads of age is hisresistive power.
The men who are going to the front first should have every chance of conserving their vitality and increasing their resistive forces.
The average man of the service needs expansion of chest capacity, which adds to his resistive power; a stronger, better-developed back; and suppleness and quickness and mobility of trunk.
Usually, when the parasites were found, there was a distinct tendency to very low resistive vitality in the tissues, sometimes proceeding even to the extent of beginning pulmonary gangrene.
His last illness was the result of a cold, and his advanced age, eighty-seven, left him little resistive vitality.
He was very resistive to the taking of a bath, and suddenly snapped at the attendants who cared for him.
The Marshal who accompanied the patient from California to this institution states that the patient was resistive and negativistic; that he assumed various constrained attitudes; was untidy, mute, and refused food.
Tests of the fire-proofing and fire-resistive properties of various structural materials are carried on in the laboratories in Building No.
Probably it helps to predispose nerve tissues to degeneration by lowering theirresistive vitality to the direct pathogenic action of the virus of syphilis.
They have succeeded in shortening the progress of disease as well as increasing the patient's resistive vitality and thus enabled him not infrequently to survive where otherwise a fatal termination might have occurred.
The most important element in this treatment is the effect on the {535} patient's mind and the consequent gain in poise and in resistive vitality against emotional explosions which are so often the immediate occasion of attacks.
Apparently the resistive vitality of their arteries is only sufficient to enable them to maintain themselves for a limited length of time against blood pressure.
As a rule, patients suffering from colds need more sleep than other people and above all need more sleep than they ordinarily take, for this will increase their resistive vitality and enable them to throw off the infection.
The principle apparently fails to note that any remedy likely to kill microbes is still more likely to kill cells of other kinds, and above all human cells lessened in their resistive vitality by disease.
The super-excitation of nerves consequent upon the more or less general erethism that is induced, lessens resistive vitality.
So long as nothing happens to call for special resistive vitality, such people may go on nursing their unhappiness.
So patients were usually depressed into a state of mind in which their resistive vitality was much lowered.
One in eight of those who become infected have not the resistive vitality to throw off the disease or the courage to face it and take such precautions as will prevent its advance.
The patient can, with the scare lifted, use his will to be well {193} ever so much more effectively and psychic factors are neutralized that were hampering his resistive vitality.
In the midst of this the lungs have their resistive vitality raised so as to throw off the disease.
This neutralizes directly the anxiety which so often acts as a definite brake upon resistive vitality.
These dreads unfortunately often serve to lessen resistive vitality to real affections when they occur and therefore become a source of real danger.
They must run their course, and the one thing essential is to put the patient in as good condition as possible so that his resistive vitality will enable him to throw off the infection as quickly as possible.
Self-pity is ever a serious hamperer of resistive vitality.
Suppose, now, that the bacillus took such a new departure, and got ahead of our 'resistive power.
