We have had many specifics since, and yet we are not quite sure how much any of them avail unless recent biological remedies prove lasting in their effects and are really of therapeutic efficiency.
Rheumatism, as we know it, is an acute infectious disease and there is no reason in the world for saying that the salicylates or cognate drugs are specifics in this affection.
I might perhaps serve out some cut-and-dried bits of morality that have been prescribed as specifics for such complaints since the days of the Seven Wise Men.
Having performed these exercises they cut off locks of their hair and tie them on the branches of the tree as specifics against headache.
Her collection contained specifics for nearly every ache and pain.
With such the two greatspecifics were opium and mercury--in all cases of doubt a dose of calomel was administered.
The revenue collected from the ad valorem duties was about seven millions of dollars; that from specifics about nine millions--leaving sixteen millions for the net revenue.
Quacks (for we find them on this subject as on others) pretend to have specifics for the cure of these defects; but their pretended remedies are mere deceptions, and the use of them causes much trouble.
Gout in the feet is the most general, and the specifics used for the bird are not more certain in their cure than those used for man.
Cancer has always been, and unfortunately still is, a terrible and an incurable disease, and has afforded a fine field for all kinds of nostrums and specifics which were to produce a "safe and certain cure.
You may take Sarza to open the Liver; Steele to open the Spleene; Flowers of Sulphur for the Lungs; Castoreum for the Braine," for each of which parts it was believed that the specifics named were most efficacious.
It certainly would have been more liberating than just being confined in a memory chamber where periodically he could recall vestiges of family happiness enough to remember some specifics but otherwise only felt their deep residue.
He could even concentrate on the specifics of her wearing that turquoise dress that he had given her, a combination of the color, green, that she liked most and the ethereal blue aqua vitae lakes of her eyes, and it would not matter.
Whether the world at large will ever be cured of trusting to specifics as a substitute for observing the laws of health, and to mechanical or intellectual formula as a substitute for character, may admit of question.
The compounds of mercury have yielded their place as drugs of all work, and specifics for that very frequent subjective complaint, nescio quid faciam,--to compounds of iodine.
This peculiarity in the disorder has no doubt given strength to the general faith in specifics for this disease.
Local applications have been tried without advantage, but there do not appear to be anyspecifics for the complaint.
But with all his specifics in store, Death on Dalmahoy one day did pop; And although he had doctors a score, Made poor Dalmahoy shut up his shop.
The faith in these boasted specifics is principally founded on two circumstances--atmospheric influence and peculiarity of breed.
It would certainly be a great convenience to us, to deliver a portion of our specifics at Fredericktown, rather than in Carolina: but I leave it to you to judge, whether this would be consistent with the general good or safety.
It would certainly be a great convenience to us, to deliver a portion of our specifics at Fredericktown, rather than in Carolina; but I leave it to you to judge, whether this would be consistent with the general good or safety.
In vain have ammonia and eau-de-luce been tried against the curare; it is now known that these specifics are uncertain, even when applied to wounds caused by the bite of serpents.
Among the specifics employed on the banks of the Orinoco, and in the Indian Archipelago, the most celebrated is muriate of soda.
The United States Government Laboratory affords striking evidence of the large percentages of alcohol contained in specifics which are stated to be largely used by persons who profess to be total abstainers.
To return to the subject proper: The summing up as to the efficacy of inoculation, drugs, serums and specifics for Influenza may best be found in the supplements to the U.
Hippocrates was so persuaded of the analogy of dreams with our physical condition, that he points out specifics against evil dreaming.
Arnaud de Villeneuve, an eminent physician and chemist, effected cures by specifics only known to himself, which were highly requited.
It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that in times when dentistry was still in its infancy there should have been persons more or less ignorant who undertook tooth drawing and the concoction and sale of specifics against odontalgia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specifics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
