When the swelling of the lids is considerable, scarifying them with the point of a lancet will often be of much service.
Scarifying the conjunctiva with the point of a lancet, has been resorted to by some veterinary surgeons with success.
Those terrible cartoons of Leech will keep coming before our eyes as we read the bland elegiac stanzas in which Punch made amends for ten years of scarifying ridicule:-- It was too soon to die.
An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.
An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.
Defn: An instrument for incising or scarifyingthe tonsils, etc.
Defn: An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.
The origin of tattooing or scarifying of the person receives a fresh significance from these Australian customs.
Each device of scarifying denotes the peculiar nation of the blacks.
The shonshona (or practice of scarifying the face or neck) prevails everywhere in Bornou, Soudan, and all this part of Africa; the Tuaricks and Fellatahs being the only people who abstain from this barbarous practice.
Here he employed himself with writing his scarifying English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, which appeared about the time that he came of age, and so amply avenged him of the Edinburgh reviewers.
Mr. Rogers, I believe, has never met with that species of Mohawk criticism, that scalping and scarifying literary assault and battery, which so many of his cotemporaries have had to undergo.
Scarifying and mutilating the body has prevailed from a remote period of time, having possibly replaced, in the process of evolution, to a certain extent, the more barbarous practice of absolute personal sacrifice.
The troops then went to the temple and performed the ceremony of scarifying their bodies, while the customary sacrifices were offered by the priests to Huitzilopochtli.
Snake-bites, common enough among a barefooted people, were cured by sucking and scarifying the wound, covering it with a thin transparent pellicle from the maguey-plant.
The satire here is so scathing andscarifying that we can only read and wonder, shuddering the while for the wretched creature so pitilessly flayed.
As more memoirs appeared, it was most funny to observe that, while Wilberforce was occupied in scarifying his dear friends, some of his dear friends were occupied in scarifying him.
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