Others represent modifications in temperature, thermic agencies, and include extremes of cold as well as of heat.
Indeed, a few writers have been so much impressed with the general resemblance which this latter condition bears to the fevers that they have insisted upon including it in this group, and have given it the name of thermic or heat fever.
This is the result of one of the most brilliant applications of the knowledge we had long possessed of the movement of the heavens to the thermic condition of our planet.
In ordinary language, and even to manufacturers, steam engine was the equivalent of thermic motor, and it would not have occurred to any one to use anything else but steam to effect the transformation.
As to the Thermic Sense, I use a set of little metal bowls, which are filled with water at different degrees of temperature.
Arrived at this point in his education, the child is capable of fixing his attention, with interest, upon the thermic and tactile stimuli.
The thermometer is the more indispensable to the physician the more his sense of touch is unadapted and untrained in the gathering of the thermic stimuli.
Therefore, when the education of the attention has been begun, we may present to the child the rough and smooth surfaces (following certain thermic exercises described elsewhere in the book).
The irritation may be by mechanical, chemical, or thermic agencies.
There is indeed a resemblance to thermic fever as regards certain important symptoms.
The opinion has been expressed by certain observers that cholera {745} infantum is identical with thermicfever or sunstroke.
Daettwyler under Quincke's direction caused, in dogs with gastric fistulae, ulcers of the stomach by various mechanical, chemical, and thermic irritants applied to the inner surface of the stomach.
The sudden manifestation of lameness is indicative of injury; thermic disturbances may signalize metastatic infection; history, if dependable, is always helpful.
Whereas, in some other and less destructive cases there may be little thermic disturbance after the first few hours have lapsed.
Tommasi (Cosmos les Mondes) notes that the thermic constant of thallium is exactly the mean of the thermicconstants of potassium and lead, the two metals which it most resembles in its chemical character.
Irritation to the skin may be either chemical, thermic or mechanical.
The causes of inflammation may be grouped under the following heads: mechanical, chemical, thermic and infectious.
He arranged a thick slab of plate glass between Thornton and the thermic transformer, and stepping to the wall closed a switch.
That capsule contains a mixture of vapours that give out disintegrating rays when the temperature is raised by thermic induction above six thousand.
My thermic inductor transformers melted last week and I'm all in the air.
There, too, swung far out from the side of the ring on a framework of steel, was the thermic inductor which had played the disintegrating Ray upon the Atlas Mountains and the great cannon of Von Heckmann.
Thornton had read his papers on induced radiation, thermic equilibrium, and had one of Bennie's famous Gem Home Cookers in his own little bachelor apartment.
Thermic induction, atomic disintegration, the Lavender Ray, these were the Alpha, the Sigma, the Omega of his existence.
Heat has a very remarkable influence in altering these relations; and atmospheric air at one temperature is magnetic to the same fluid at another: thus, by thermic variations, attraction or repulsion may be alternately maintained.
Thermic influence of the lower polar current and the counter currents in the straits of the sea -- p.
Threefold movement of the heat of the earth; its thermic condition.
In this case it is not a question of thermic exercise but of a permanent deprivation of heat, in individuals who are already suffering from an insufficient development of heat-units.
But it has been shown by Marmier that this attenuation was simply the result of thermic actions.
The fluids and tissues of the individual may or may not afford a favorable soil for the germs of a disease, or, in the same person afford it at one time, and not at another.
The sailor instinct--the aptitude of the navigator--instantly told him what this thermic change meant for Hili-li.
Venesection: best treatment if face be cyanosed and heart laboring and if meningitis threaten after thermic fever (Hare).
In like manner the thermic and the mechanical effects are most simply explained, according to the expression selected by Crookes himself, as the results of a "continued molecular bombardment.
It is, therefore, impossible not to be struck by the direct relation of the thermic and mechanical phenomena of which the negative electrode is the origin.
