To them, as to the whole town, the sun and its friend, the breeze, came as a tonic and a cure.
The deserted state of the Park somewhat discounted the tonic effects of its morning freshness.
Given in combination with phosphoric acid, I believe it the most valuable tonic available in this disease.
The general regimen should be tonic and invigorating.
It is often very necessary in these chronic cases to use tonic and alterative treatment, such as cod-liver oil and iodide of iron.
The sphincter is kept in a state of tonic contraction by a nervous centre situated in the lumbar portion of the spinal cord.
It is, however, both tonic and sedative, and as such is to be recommended in conjunction with other measures.
In meningitis and tetanus the muscular walls of the bowel and the abdominal muscles are in a state of tonic contraction.
All these operations paralyze the vaso-motor nerves by which, in health, the blood-vessels of the liver are kept in a state of tonic contraction; hence these vessels dilate when the nerves are cut.
To supply the phosphates, in which gluten bread is deficient, as well as for their tonic effect, the various preparations of phosphates are useful.
In addition to careful feeding a little careful tonic treatment should from the first be employed in conjunction with the specific remedies, iodide of iron, cod-liver oil, and preparations of the phosphates being the most useful drugs.
Garrod advises resort to some place where the air is bracing and the waters tonic or chalybeate, as Buxton, Spa, Schwalbach, or St. Moritz.
Constitutionally, tonic and supporting treatment is demanded, even in those instances where the appetite is well maintained and the {344} general health apparently well conserved.
In small tonic doses it is specially indicated in conditions of general nervous prostration associated with a tendency to hypochondriasis.
Tonic medicines were then tried, but without advantage, and in a month it was necessary to have recourse to the Digitalis again.
By taking some tonic pills he continued quite well until the next spring, when he had a return of his complaint, which was carried off by the same means.
Infusion of Digitalis carried off all the effusion, and afterwards a course of deobstruent and tonicmedicines removed his other complaints.
Most striking among the tonic influences of the baths, are those that occur within the sphere of the digestive and sexual apparatuses.
Thanks to the tonic effects of the current, they are by the feeble and infirm borne much better than the ordinary warm bath.
In the healthy organism, however, the stimulant and toniceffects of the baths are much less marked than they are where the general condition is “below par.
If not as immediately perceptible, the stimulant and permanent tonic and invigorating influences on the sexual organs are not much less constant than the corresponding influences on digestion.
Where we meet with atonic conditions however, with debility, malnutrition, want of energy or general asthenia of an obscure nature, and amenable to electric influence, the tonic effects of the baths become striking and brilliant.
After what has been said in a preceding chapter of the tonic effects of electric baths, it would scarcely appear necessary to introduce the subject of cachexiæ.
I find them extremely good hands," he said "And all of you make a tonic for tired eyes.
The cadence formed when a subdominant chord immediately precedes the final tonic chord.
The changes of key in Brahms' variations are restricted to the tonic minor (Nos.
The first is dominated by thetonic key of the movement.
That means that you want me to take that old, new tonic of yours.
Among our Californian Indians, a decoction made from the root is a favorite tonic remedy, and it has become a recognized drug in the pharmacopoeia of our Coast, being used as an alterative and tonic.
In the East, from the leaves of this species is manufactured the drug "chimaphila," which is valued as a tonic and astringent, also as a remedy for cataract.
A tincture made of the bark is used by physicians as a tonic and laxative and as a remedy for fevers and coughs.
Do those of you who are musicians remember when you first apprehended the relations between the tonic and the dominant chords?
To this tonic chord the harmonies of the composition must bear a close and constantly felt relationship.
Tonality is simply the relation of a musical phrase, or air, or longer composition, to a keynote or tonic chord.
I don't suppose they are any better than our people, and I've no doubt I should miss a good deal there after a while--a certain tonic and purpose in life.
I've given you a tonic that will clear that notion from your head.
Gilbert's tonic held him fairly calm while he put up his patent razors.
In addition to instruction in singing, violin and brass band classes were commenced last winter, also on the tonic sol-fa method, and have been very successful.
Dobson was appointed superintendent of musical instruction, and has formulated a very thorough system; the tonic sol-fa method is adopted and infants, if only seven years of age, are taught to sing from note correctly.
Occasionally, also, rhythmical shivering contractions may be seen superimposed on the general tonic contraction, either in a part or over the whole of the contractile tissues.
The rate of the rhythm still quickening, the tetanus rapidly becomes more and more pronounced, till at last the bell becomes quiescent in tonic spasm.
The tonic spasm continues progressively to increase in severity, and gives the outline of the margin a very irregular form; the twitching contractions become weaker and less frequent, till at last they altogether die away.
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.
But if the bell be transferred to normal sea-water immediately after, or, still better, slightly before the tonic spasm has become complete, an interesting series of phenomena is presented.
But then, or a few seconds later, there generally occurs a series of two or three tonic spasms, separated from one another by an interval of a few seconds.
Four or five seconds later the manubrium begins to retract by rhythmical twitches, the rate of this rhythm rapidly increasing until it ends in tonic contraction.
It is tonicand bracing, and, I can readily believe, has rare medicinal qualities.
The treatment consists in removing the cause, and giving the flock a tonic mixture in the feed.
We should guard against their taking cold, give nourishing feeds, and a tonic if necessary.
He was far more tired than he knew, and remembering the "yerb wine" which Matt Peke had provided him with, he took a long draught of it, grateful for its reviving warmth and tonic power.
Seldom does the temperature rise above eighty degrees or go below forty, but there's a tonic of new life in the air, even though it has no month so cold as April at Atlantic City, nor any month so warm as New York's June.
The colorless, bitter juice of many of the gentian tribe has long been valued as a tonic in medicine.
No ruminant will touch the leaves, owing to their bitter juices, nor will a grub or nibbling rodent molest the root, which bites like ginger; nevertheless credulous mankind once utilized the plant as a tonic medicine.
The Indians loved to smoke its bark for its alleged tonic effect.
Probably the plant would be commoner than it is about populous Eastern districts were it not so much sought after as a tonic medicine.
It was tonic and exhilarating to see her whirl away toward the vineyard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
