On the morning of the fifth day, however, the children who underwent the scarification on the first day were again assembled and driven by the dancers as rapidly as possible about the village and out into the valley.
The dancers then performed for their benefit, making a great deal of fun both of the children and of the scarification ceremony.
Such artificial leeches are often difficult to distinguish from cupping devices, because both sorts of instruments employed some form of scarification and suction.
Scarification without cupping in Egypt in the 16th century.
It is not necessary that the scarification should draw blood, although blood is not objectionable unless it flows so freely as to wash away the virus, or unless the subject has hæmophilia.
The scarification may be made with any sharp instrument, or with the point itself.
When the bloodvessels of the uvula are in a state of chronic enlargement, scarification is also employed with advantage.
Scarification is a very efficient mode of abstracting blood, and one which, in my own hands, has often been attended with the happiest results.
Little good can result from scarification of the wound.
Leeches applied to the conjunctiva of the lower lid are sometimes advantageous; but leeching and scarification are more useful in the chronic stage: and the latter is injurious in acute ophthalmia.
Scarification of the tonsils and surrounding membrane is seldom required.
Formation of matter in the nasal cavity is to be prevented, by scarification of the swollen membrane that fills the nostrils and precludes the passage of air; and if matter has been allowed to collect, it must be early discharged.
Scarification Scarification is useful in severe contusions, and inflammation of parts.
Scarification or removal of part of the tonsils is followed in half a day or a day by a deposit of diphtheritic membrane on the wound.
Like all the other savages in the Transvaal, the Mapors practice scarification to a great extent.
As these ceremonies also included the coming of age of the young crown prince, he was attended by the chief witch-doctors and made to undergo scarification and circumcision.
XI-25] Scarification could not be omitted by the pious on these occasions, although women were not called upon to draw blood.
He frequently pretends to suck out such an object by the application of the lips alone, without any scarification whatever.
The bleeding is performed with a small cupping horn, to which suction is applied in the ordinary manner, after scarification with a flint or piece of broken glass.
Clavigero, holds the scarification of breast, stomach and arms to be the circumcision referred to by other authors.
In certain cases he also proceeds to scarification of the gums, or else he detaches them all around from the tooth, by means of a special instrument called a pericharacter.
This stolid cure, says the author, has no other value than that of the scarification of the part affected.
See also Incisions, Scarification Cutting or lacerating the body in honour of the dead, iv.
Scarification as a mode of exorcizing demons and ghosts, iii.
In cases of considerable severity, and especially when there is reason to expect extension into the deeper tissues, superficial scarification of the dorsum of the tongue is advisable.
If the suffering from the inflamed tonsil be intense, scarification should be practised and the bleeding be encouraged by warm water.
Extension to the larynx demands scarification or tracheotomy.
Scarification to give vent to pent-up blood or puncture to allow the escape of effused serum will afford prompt relief.
Figure 20 represents scarification as a form of grief-expression for the dead.
This scarification is usually accomplished with a knife, or, as in earlier days, with a flint.
Scarification is called "ta-bád," and it has no other significance than adornment.
Scarification simply for purposes of ornamentation is not practiced to any great extent by the Negritos around Pinatubo.
A treatment which has been highly recommended consists in prompt and vigorous scarification at the site of puncture and rubbing crystals of potassium permanganate into the wound.
By way of direct treatment, slight scarification is the most that will be required.
For inoculation the discharge from the pustules of a mild case should be selected and inoculated by scarification on the belly or the under surface of the neck.
In this case a deep scarification of the part is indicated.
In the former situation the sole is thinned down until a sufficient flow is obtained, while at the coronet scarification is the method adopted.
Scarification of the affected part is a common mode of treating local inflammatory complaints.
These Blisters may be preceded by Cupping with Scarification on the Nape of the Neck.
The Ancients directed it to be cauterized, or burnt with a red hot Iron (meer Scarification being of very little Effect) and this Method would very probably prove effectual.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarification" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
