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The local symptoms are less marked than in the acute form and the general symptoms may be absent.
But his sufferings were now so acute that he would have driven that brother away had he been before him.
Whose ear was so acute that he caught the hissing of snakes whenever the young man opened his mouth?
His face was sickly, and never free from the traces of acute anxiety that was eating at his heart.
The thought of Diana's future wealth and glory produced in her a feeling which was an acute physical distress.
The moonlight, shining on his powerful face and curly hair, stirred in her a sudden, acute sense of delight.
It cannot be disputed that this bitterness and discontent were becoming very acute in the years before the war.
At this moment I have before me a patient now left suffering pain as acute as any the rack ever inflicted.
The peasants and poor are without the necessities of life, and conditions of starvation grow more acute every day.
That very evening my headache became acute, and I was seized with a strange shivering which lasted all night.
A lateral tile drain should enter a main at an acute angle to prevent too great a check in the current.
Although one of the most acute of observers, Thoreau was never reckoned among the scientific men of his time.
Comte, one of the acute and courageous editors of the Censor, was chosen by the general as his "counsel."
In a work like the present, however, utility will be consulted by classing all under acute or chronic inflammation.
It will relieve pain or acute inflammation, and will be a general tonic in keeping the system in a good condition.
This question, obscured during the winter by the Balkan crisis, once more became acute in the spring of 1909.
The poisons formed in the blood by germs in acute diseases are among the most common sources of headache.
It is neither brilliant nor acute; but gives a superficial sketch of that state of being with considerable accuracy.
Sight is generally acute, perhaps more so than in ordinary individuals, and in this the criminal resembles the savage.
It is an acute and profound work of science, worth all the common books on the subject put together.
She had a jaded yet an acute eye for its various aspects, as she drove from Paddington towards St.
At this visit to the White House, the only question that was acute was that of the wireless stations.
Set two or three inches deeper than they grew in the nursery, trim close, and leave no acute forks.
Acute as his suffering was under Maria's tongue, he would rather endure it than not have her with him.
Sunstroke or heat stroke, usually begins with acute pain in the head, followed almost immediately by loss of consciousness.
As the first thought-image jumped upon the screen there was a low moan of amazement mixed with acute pain.
Few characters will not feel strengthened by the study of this very acute investigation of duty in social relations.
Observations became more acute in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, experiments more frequent, and publications more full and numerous.
The warriors swayed back and forth and there was an air of tense expectation that became constantly more acute.
About the same time, the Jesuits caused Madame de Maintenon a much more acute pain than that of the ridiculous print.
The rain fell fast, and the Prince was seized on the review ground with acute pains in the back.
"No, no," cried Spence, getting his voice back at last and speaking like a man in acute physical pain.
She concluded with a little laugh of content and happiness at this moment of acute physical and mental ease.
Educators are not always aware, I think, how acute are the perceptions, and how permanent the memories, of children.
I could see that her lovely face expressed acute disappointment and that she was on the verge of tears.
The big interrogation point was up on everything at that time, owing to the acute stage of the war.
Whilst the engineers were struggling to overcome these manifold difficulties, the political situation was steadily becoming still more acute.
Whenever the nation was both excited and determined, such a rule would be an acute and dangerous political poison.
His Voice had an acute and piercing Tone, which struck every Syllable of his Words distinctly upon the Ear.
To say that she consented with personal pain of the most acute kind, would not be to say all.
It was not attended by acute pain or struggling, but, falling into a deep and quiet sleep, he woke no more.
Jim Allen patted her head and otherwise showed acute embarrassment of a man who is being cried over publicly.
But the apron appeared to be the last straw added to the already intolerable burden of her acute discomfort.
In the early acute stage of fever it will be a bad practice to give it even in the smallest quantity.
This tearing of the heart-strings was a new kind of suffering, more acute than any caused by personal hardship.
If you are as acute as I think, you will easily discover the necessary clues to the hiding-place of the gold.
But she had much longer still to wait and endure the pain which every instant was getting more acute.
Bacteria may be demonstrated in acute infections of the lung within the fluid and cells of the lymph channels.
Neither have I ever been able, even a day or two after acute pain, to make myself remember how it felt.
Nocturnal pollutions occurring during the progress of acute or chronic general disorders are also, as a rule, readily checked.
He found his wife in a state of considerable weakness, although it was not so acute as on the previous occasion.
The problem of food-supply became progressively acute and the control of the sea was soon seen to be an economic necessity.
Yet I cannot alter what I have said, however acute may be my sympathy with those who have stumbled.
Her fancy was indeed lively, and her capacity acute; but experience had set a confined limit to her ideas.
Not only was my sense of hearing unusually acute, but I had an almost abnormal appreciation of musical sounds.
No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain-fever.
Moreover, I certainly recognize that your comparisons are acute and witty; but what has this to do with truth?
For a time these mental tortures were acute; but at last nature asserted herself, and he sank exhausted into sleep.
The dull utterly neglect them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture.
He felt, as he gazed, a strange, unknown pleasure, that grew more and more acute till it was almost pain.
There still remained, indeed, in his party, many acute intellects, many eloquent tongues, many brave and honest hearts.
A sound may be too sharp to be perceptible to the ear; an emotion too acute conveys no meaning to the mind.
Their embarrassment, however, will be less acute under the conditions of industrial reconstruction which will follow the war.
Like a boil, such a horse race as this must burst some day, and it was reaching the acute stage.
He strove to dull his anxiety by incessant work, but it was too acute to be soothed by physical fatigue.
The affairs of the family in whose interests he had become so suddenly involved were rapidly reaching an acute stage.
The mania was so acute that no one had the slightest thought that she would recover or even live long.
On my life, love for a pipe is ever like love for a woman, though they say it is not so acute.
As to the treatment of this acute prison psychotic complex theoretically, we should have no difficulty in deciding this question.
The world was bright and beautiful, but he was conscious of an acute pain at the center of his being.
But a dull pain all over reminded me, and gradually a more acute and intense pain on my left side.
A soul on the rack seems to make itself heard at moments, when suffering has grown too acute for silence.
The prophets represent the moral genius of the race, its acute discernment of the causes of social integrity or decay.
Their power of sight is not particularly acute, but it is said that they 'can smell a man a mile.'
Then the acute realization was forced in upon him that he had the general manager of the line to face.
The acute angle pointed toward the east, and the sides of the triangle were much twisted and broken.
Perhaps one of the most acute problems with which the Association is faced is the struggle to keep financially solvent.
She told all this with apathy, however, and seemed to have no power of acute feeling outside of her child.
Once in a way, during the past winter, Archie, in some acute phase of boredom, had written him a letter.
But the sense of hearing had become more acute in proportion as the other faculties of the tailor had diminished.
It is becoming more and more acute, and there is no telling when or where the storm clouds will break.
His quick strokes betrayed his acute anxiety to traverse the stretch of water in as short a time as possible.
Once in a way, during the past winter, Archie, in some acute phase of boredom, had written him a letter.
Sometimes the instrument is oval, and occasionally it terminates below in a horizontal line, instead of in an acute angle.
The boy had been enough left to her and nurse during his father's acute illness to have become more amenable.
Kimberly, however, persisted, and he now had, for some reason not clear to Alice, a circle of painfully acute listeners.
If acute diseases are treated in harmony with Nature's laws, they will leave the body in a purer, healthier condition.
The question may be asked: "If acute diseases represent Nature's healing efforts, why is it that people die from them?"
She had not known while bearing him her present acute sensation of the hunted flying and at bay.
Her first terror had been so acute that he had failed to see what remained after her fright had passed.
A keen and acute perception of the fitness of things can only be acquired by the development of the taste.
But meanwhile the unhappy director of our theater had passed from a state of chronic to one of acute bankruptcy.
A line passing from the Liver line to the line of Fortune, forming an acute angle, brings sorrow and labor.
Number of Deaths occasioned, during the last five years, by certain Acute Diseases, chiefly epidemic, infectious, and endemic.
Speeding through the country lanes, with this beautiful girl by his side, Richard was conscious of acute happiness.
Even when the first acute discomforts incident to removal had passed away, the general depression was little relieved.
The two acute angles are here again filled up with the same sign which we noticed on the preceding figure.
He was persuaded, moreover, that short fibers favored the production of acute tones, and long fibers grave ones.
In some people, the pains were so acute in their backs and hips, that they could not lie in bed.
I think I had the most acute, inquiring, and eager mind of any girl of my age in the world.