Consciousness seems to arise when the body assumes an attitude which, being an attitude, supervenes upon the body's elements and cannot be contained within them.
Such mastery is desirable in itself and for its fruits; it does not make itself responsible for the chaos of goods and evils that it supervenes upon.
Purpose thus supervenes on useful impulse, and conscious expression on self-sustaining automatism.
A first shift in aspiration, a capacity for radical altruism, thus supervenes upon the lust to live and accompanies parental and social interests.
It sometimes happens that when an acute infective disease, especially one of the exanthemata, supervenes while a fracture is undergoing repair, the callus which has formed becomes softened and is absorbed.
The mutual influence of the kidneys and other important organs tends to explain the way in which disease in one part supervenes on preexisting disorder in another.
If a pain supervenes the hold must be retained, and whatever gain has been made must be held if possible.
When insanity supervenes on epilepsy, or where the latter disease is induced by insanity, a cure is very seldom effected.
La-pousse (pushing out of the cask), is the name given to a violent fermentative movement, which occasionally supervenes after the wine has been run off into the casks.
Chew observes:-- “Rigor mortis is a condition that seldom or never supervenes in the hot weather in India, and is often a feature of catalepsy.
Now the stiffness of the limbs accompanying this intense form of trance supervenes at once, and lasts as long as the paroxysm continues.
Hectic supervenes only when the disease is very extensive, and joints become involved.
Inflammation of the Cornea supervenes on simple conjunctival inflammation, and frequently on the purulent.
Inflammation of the internal parts of the eyeball sometimes supervenes on conjunctival inflammation, and then the distinctive characters of the two affections are not perceptible.
Very frequently it is not primary, but supervenes on adventitious formations originally of an innocuous character, and which might have long remained so.
In the course of the cure hectic usually supervenes to a greater or less degree, and requires the reverse of the previous treatment.
The pain is of a very different character from that arising from spasm, induced by the irritating nature of the intestinal contents, which supervenes in paroxysms, and is relieved by pressure or by evacuation.
A condition, somewhat resembling sympathetic fever, occasionally supervenes in a constitution that has been suffering from hectic, when any additional irritation occurs, and this fever has been called Irritative.
During the initial period of the disorder the urine will simply be high-colored and loaded with urates and uric acid, but when jaundice supervenes the pigment will convert the urine into a dark, coffee-colored, and somewhat thick liquid.
When gangrene supervenes the pain subsides, the pulse becomes weak and intermittent, the surface cold and clammy, and the patient soon dies in a state of collapse.
It does not commence as by a stroke like coup de soleil, but it comes on more gradually, though rapidly, and it often supervenesupon a diarrhoea or some error of diet.
General dropsy supervenes in a majority of the cases finally, due largely to the hydraemia; and of this condition ascites is a part.
Ulcerated surfaces are slow to heal, and gangrene supervenes sometimes spontaneously, but more often as the result of some trifling injury.
Not infrequently it is ushered in with a well-marked chill, upon which immediately supervenes a sharp pain at the affected region.
One may expect," he says in speaking of the victims of gangrene, "that such patients will be attacked with dysentery; for dysentery usually supervenes in cases of mortification and of hemorrhage from wounds.
In its more acute form gastric inflammation supervenes in the course of yellow fever; and what is observed here in an extreme degree exists in a minor degree in all the so-called malarious fevers.
Atrophy of the wall of the intestine, chiefly of the mucous layer, supervenesupon catarrh.
The stools are composed of scybalae chiefly at first, afterward of a brownish offensive liquid, and when jaundice supervenes they become whitish in color, pasty, and semi-solid.
Nevertheless, A certain practical sobriety supervenes upon subsequent affairs of the heart.
This displacement usually superveneson a flaccid condition of the bladder, the result of paralysis, overdistention, or severe compression during a difficult parturition.
When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.
There supervenes a division of labour among the servants or dependents whose life is spent in maintaining the honour of the gentleman of leisure.
If transferred to fresh water after five minutes' exposure, there immediately supervenes a strong and persistent tonic spasm, resembling rigor mortis, and the animal remains motionless for about twenty minutes.
Thus, closure of the constant current acts as a stronger stimulus than does opening of the same, while the reverse is true of the induction shock; and exhaustion supervenes under the influence of prolonged excitation.
After these stages there supervenes a prolonged period of quiescence, during which the animal remains normally responsive to stimulation.
Now the endurance of a habit in its subject does not require the endurance of its act, so that when a contrary act supervenes the acquired habit is not at once done away.
At the outset of the eruption a profuse diarrhoea supervenes in most cases--a symptom which Trousseau rightly insists to be an essential feature of measles.
When muttering deliriumsupervenes this subsultus tendinum becomes constant, and extends to other parts of the body.
In acute cutaneous glanders or farcy, premonitory symptoms resemble those of ordinary acute glanders, which indeed is usually present as well, and always supervenes before farcy terminates in death.
Tympanites occasionally rapidly supervenes upon the occurrence of perforation, and must then, of course, be treated with due reference to the latter condition.
The confusion of intellect or delirium continues in bad cases until death supervenes or until the establishment of convalescence.
When gangrene supervenes the prognosis is almost hopeless, but an effort should be made to save the patient's life by the administration of potassium chlorate and of an increased amount of stimulus.
The peculiarity of dumb or paralytic rabies in dogs is that the last or paralytic stage supervenes at once on the prodromata, without any intervening period of acute delirium and fury.
In nearly one-half of the cases glanders superveneson the cutaneous symptoms.
When, however, stupor supervenes in bad cases, the pupils are frequently as much contracted and the conjunctivæ as much injected as in the latter disease.
It is often observed among the prodromata of the disease, and when these are absent supervenes directly after the chill.
Underhill believes measles to be most fatal when it supervenes soon after delivery, while those who are confined during the course of the malady stand a better chance of recovering from it.
The intestines cease to perform their office of absorption from a similar torpor; and a diarrhoea supervenes owing to the acrimony of their putrid, or of their acid contents.
No leucocytic exudation is observed; death supervenes before this has had time to take place.
Death supervenes in from twenty-five to thirty minutes, and at the autopsy hæmorrhagic patches are found beneath the endocardium of the left ventricle.
Death supervenes in a few minutes, from respiratory asphyxia, as in the case of intoxication by the venom of Colubrine snakes (Cobra).
Then again there supervenes the evil of the competitive school system which, too frequently, forces the education of a child beyond the natural order of growth.
In case of chronic depression, we should by no means underestimate the importance of that comfortable feeling induced by the exercise of electronal vibrations, which supervenes upon properly administered massage.
When insanity supervenes on epilepsy, of where the latter disease is induced by insanity, a cure is very seldom effected: from my own observation, I do not recollect a single case of recovery.
Just as soon as consciousness of the task supervenes his power of co-ordination fails and stuttering begins.
Occasionally fright by a burglar may cause a distinct tremulousness that supervenes whenever the patient thereafter is wakened suddenly at night.
And this value we should be able to discover by seeking the difference which supervenes upon experience through expression of this kind.
The aesthetic interest in the work as living supervenes upon the interest in it as a mere reminder of life.
Then beauty supervenes upon mere utility, and a value for contemplation grows out of and, for the moment, supplants a value in use.
The lower extremities feel unnaturally heavy and a paretic condition of the muscles supervenes simultaneously on both sides.
When paralysis supervenes it drops entirely, and the tongue protrudes.
Tichoff[211] found the torticollis reappear four days after division of the spinal accessory, and though, in his opinion, relapse supervenes after this operation in more than fifty per cent.
Very commonly the affection supervenes as the sequel to the unhindered repetition of a once voluntary purposive act, a repetition become tyrannical through volitional debility.
Sometimes it also happens that both these Diseases are combined at once in the same Person; and that one supervenes before the other has finished its Course, which makes the Case very perilous.
A perfect Cure supervenes sometimes, at the very Moment when Death was expected.
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