I soon saw the sloughs were frozen and would bear my ox and wide wheeled cart where it was not deep, so I cut across.
The livid spots on the right hand had not increased in size, but appeared like distinct small black superficial sloughs of the skin; these all scabbed off, without suppuration.
I have at last, I think, begun to rise out of the sloughs of the past three months.
I suppose you are sinking ever deeper into the sloughs of the law--yet I ween the Eternal Mystery still from time to time gives her goad another turn in the raw she once established between your ribs.
There are bogs and beaver sloughs and old abandoned beaver holes, and it's easy for a horse to fall down, and sometimes mighty hard to get him up again.
Several times they dismounted, tied their horses, and went in as far as they could toward the main stream, but twice they were stopped by water, or mud, or by beaversloughs that were too wide for them to cross.
The greater part of the sloughs have separated, and have left a healthy florid granulating surface; no change in the general symptoms.
Some superficial sloughing took place in the wound, but the sloughs soon separated, and healthy discharge and granulation followed.
When the sloughsbecome loose, they must be removed bit by bit with scissors; and when the sphacelated part has separated entirely, the healing of the breach is to be promoted by judicious dressing, bandaging, and by proper position.
In the advanced stage, the sloughs are the irritating cause by which the inflammatory action is prolonged, and on their removal the cavity contracts speedily.
In a short time fresh ligatures are passed through the old perforations, and drawn from time to time, till the part sloughs and drops away.
Then the cavity should be opened freely, and by poulticing the clots and sloughs are got quit of; afterwards the parts must be supported, as also the strength of the patient.
The hernial sac seldom sloughs entirely; in almost every case its neck remains sound; to this remaining part the intestine adheres.
The separation of the sloughs is to be encouraged.
If returned into the abdomen, the sloughs will separate, in all probability, and feculent effusion take place, causing death in a very few hours.
A simple or crucial opening, according to circumstances, must afterwards be made in the apex of the tumour, so that the sloughs of the cellular tissue may be permitted to escape readily.
Dilatation was also employed by tents and various other means with a view to secure the escape of sloughs and discharges.
Suppuration commences on the third or fourth day, and in about ten days or a fortnight the sloughs are thrown off.
Sloughs or ulcers of the mouth, attended with sensitive fever with great arterial debility.
The sloughs spread and seemed to accelerate his death.
These sloughsare whitish, sometimes distinct, often coalescing, and remain an uncertain time.
The tongue becomes rather swelled; its colour and that of the fauces purplish; sloughs or ulcers appear first on the throat and edges of the tongue, and at length over the whole mouth.
One wonders what that mute, inglorious Chute thought of it all; if he was as disgusted with Sussex sloughs and moist unpleasant "mountains" as his garrulous companion.
They breed very abundantly in the sloughs of the prairies in the Northwest.
A pile of weeds and trash in sloughs on the prairies, or about the edges of marshy lakes, the nests often being surrounded by, and partly floating in the water.
They nest in colonies, often in the same sloughswith Horned and Western Grebes, laying their eggs early in June.
Then the snow blew off the higher mounds and ridges, and only the hollows and sloughs were white.
Banning, we rolled out of Wilmington one day toward noon; and crossing numerous sloughs and quicksands, past countless flocks of wild-geese, arrived the same evening at Anaheim.
Thick sloughs he cuts away with a bistouri or with scissors.
The cases of simple resolution terminate in three weeks: those in which sloughs are formed, in from 30 to 40 days, if not fatal.
On the 15th and 16th, the sloughs separate, and leave from one to six ulcers.
The sloughs are generally black, with ash-coloured edges.
The disgusting sloughs and discharge, and the fear of an imaginary contagion, make the nurses very unwilling to introduce their fingers into the reluctant little patient's mouth, and without this scrutiny all is in vain.
These muskrats were designed for the most inaccessible ponds and sloughs in the swamp and it was too late even to think of taking them in today.
He'll find a way to get into your back sloughs and eddys; a shallow-draft boat light enough to carry will take him there.
Some of thesloughs had so many arms and branches that they were practically water systems within themselves, and some of the branches were hidden by foliage.
Of course, there was always a possibility of bitter cold that would freeze shallow ponds and sloughs to the bottom.
There were few trees and little brush here, but swamp grass grew tall and the ponds and sloughs were choked with succulent aquatic growth that would enable his released captives to live richly.
A half hour later, they appeared with ten babies, and when Andy passed the sloughs inhabited by lone muskrats whose mates had been killed, he was amazed to find each of them with eight young.
But as far as Andy knew, the only ways out of this section of the swamp led across sloughs and he was certain that, of his own accord, Frosty would not cross water.
But ice-locked ponds and sloughs would protect the muskrats from almost everything.
Andy made his way toward the north end of the swamp, a wild and tangled place, with not too many sloughs and ponds but more trees and brush than any other part of the whole area.
The Snowbird sprang forward at a word and, by experience trained to shun the sloughs and mud-holes, skimmed lightly across the prairie and out of sight.
The Sun Maid laughed, as merrily as in the old days, and answered promptly: "I've never found any sloughs of despond and something is bound to happen.
In these discarded sloughs the lens-like covering of the eye will be found unbroken.
They appear to moult, or "slough," in patches, though entire sloughs are found occasionally.
These sloughs may be found floating entire in the water looking like Newt-ghosts; but on land they may be got rid of piecemeal, the old skin being sometimes swallowed as in the case of the Toad.
The strain and labour of six good horses, sometimes eight, drew us through the sloughs of Mireden and many other places.
North of that point there was only a narrow causeway fit for pack-horses, flanked with clay sloughs on either side.
At the same time the cream-coloured sloughs or specks on the fauces become loose and are cast off, and the swelling goes down.
Although Dr Hewett, in 1826, identified his cases with the dothienenterite of Bretonneau, yet neither he nor Dr Bright took the abdominal ulcerations or sloughs as distinctive of a new kind of fever.
It was many days before the sloughs were all exfoliated.
Sims' first case was of a youth at Camberwell, in March, with scarlet rash and sloughs of the throat.
Some threw out several white ash-coloured sloughs, though no such sloughs were visible upon inspecting the throat.
The disease had no crisis, but in general, if the patient were to recover, the amendment began on the third, fourth or fifth day, when the redness disappeared and the sloughs in the throat were cast off.
Sloughs of the fauces and epiglottis extended as a membranous exudation into the trachea.
Not a few had gangrenous sloughs in the mouth, which formed quickly.
Dr Wall goes on to say that the "Kidderminster sore-throat" had a vast variety of symptoms, the only certain ones being aphthous ulcers and sloughs on the tonsils and parts about the pharynx.
About the second or third day there were whitish or yellowish sloughs on the tonsils and uvula, which in many cases left deep, ragged ulcers.
The pain is at first intense, but passes off on about the second day to return again at the end of a week, when the sloughs separate, exposing the sensitive nerve filaments of the underlying skin.
In burns of the third degree, there is a partial destruction of the true skin, leaving sloughs of a yellowish or black colour.
I will not wear your sympathy and patience eighteen times out, with the history of the eighteen sloughs we went, or were got, through at the imminent peril of our lives.
This species is always found in wet or moist places, and in the lower Wabash bottoms in low overflow lands or in or about old sloughs it often forms the principal stand.
In Indiana it is found only about river sloughs or deep swamps in the southwestern counties.
This species grows in low ground on the borders of streams, borders of swamps and in almost extinct sloughs near Lake Michigan.
It is a common to an infrequent tree of the river sloughs and cypress swamps of the southwestern counties.
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