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It gives strength to the system, weakened by labor or reduced by the corrupted and debilitating atmosphere of the cities.
Their stock of food also proved inadequate; and as their constitutions became more debilitated their suffering from cold increased.
The violence of his pain produced irregular fevers, deprived him of rest, and entirely debilitated his whole frame.
As you may imagine, it leaves them very debilitated; for no sooner does the victim recover from one attack than another is due.
He who swallows such enormous quantities, even of plain food, as by overloading and fatiguing the stomach, tend gradually to debilitate it, will produce the same effect.
Her application was incessant; and its effects on her constitution, already somewhat debilitated by previous disease, became apparent in increased nervous sensibility.
The invalid who is much debilitated should take all baths in a warm room, with an assistant, bathing one portion while the other is kept partially dressed.
During the act, they are subjected to nervous shocks, they "see stars," and undergo rigors and nervous sweats which are severely debilitating.
Our blankets did not suffice this evening to keep us in tolerable warmth; the slightest breeze seeming to pierce our debilitated frames.
Hood could follow in his present debilitated state, I pushed forward to stop the rest of the party who had got out of sight during the delay which the discussion respecting the canoe had occasioned.
I cannot describe what everyone felt at beholding the skeleton which the Doctor's debilitated frame exhibited.
Oh yes, he could understand its fascination, its irresistible appeal to the emotions; he only wished to remind her that it was the most debilitating study in the world.
She eats little, to attract remark to her slender waist; she satisfied her hunger with debilitating tea, sugared cakes, ices which heat her, or slices of heavy pastry.
A debilitating reaction, such as follows some tremendous physical effort, had quickly succeeded.
We are a people of warriors, and it will be an easy thing for us to conquer the English, debilitated by a false conception of life.
It indicates the debilitating idea that in war we must seek rather to avoid than to inflict defeat.
The cry of fire, the tumult, the bursting into the room, the dashing of the cradle and the shrieks of the child, so shocked the debilitated king that he died within an hour.
Roe's party had been delayed only a few hours there is every probability that from the debilitated state in which the men were found they would all have perished.
Think of the debilitated jests and stories which a time-honoured custom inserts at the back of some of our magazines.
All exciting powers were supposed to be stimulating, the apparent debilitating effects of some being due to a deficiency in the amount of stimulus.
Madame de la Tour again appeared amongst them; and, though pale and debilitated by recent illness, her presence inspired them with renewed hope and resolution.
The skin should be kept active, if the patient is robust, by the morning cold bath with friction after it; but if he is weak and debilitated, the evening warm bath should be substituted.
In this country it is seldom seen except in members of the tramp class, who, in addition to being exposed to cold by sleeping in the open air, are ill-fed and generally debilitated.
While boils are frequently met with in debilitated persons, and particularly in those suffering from diabetes or Bright's disease, they also occur in those who enjoy vigorous health.
I'm not trying to produce an improved psychological climate, suitable for debilitated psychos!
From two to three packages are required for chronic, severe or obstinate cases, or where the person is much debilitated or advanced in years.
Our blankets did not suffice this evening to keep us in tolerable warmth; the slightest breeze seeming to pierce through our debilitated frames.
I cannot describe what every one felt at beholding the skeleton which the Doctor's debilitated frame exhibited.
I know that an attack of this debilitating complaint is no trifle in your case, as its effects linger with you long.
The victim suffers from nausea and vomiting, and becomes so mentally debilitated that asylum treatment is required.
Many of these apprentices, of good birth and tender education, were unable to endure the debilitating climate and hard labor, let alone the cruelty of their employers.
Edison cannot be depended upon in the case of the average man or woman, and certainly will not meet the needs of those who are debilitated and striving to build vitality.
The debilitated Neville feared his last sands would run out before he could embrace his son.
The debilitating effects of excessive sexual indulgence arise from two causes; viz., the loss of the seminal fluid, and the nervous excitement.
When digestion ceases a slow form of starvation begins, and the vital organs, deprived of their substance, become debilitated.
Now I know how Harriet Beecher Stowe could write Uncle Tom's Cabin with poverty and sickness and a debilitating climate and seven children.
It debilitates the country, disperses the agricultural workers over vast areas, isolates them, robs them of all means of mental development and resistance to exploitation
Unhealthy physical and mental states in the parents lead to debilitated or deficient offspring.
The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.
He thought the civilization of the South somewhat debilitating, so far as women were concerned.
We saw him as he was on the point of embarking, when he appeared so much debilitated that I even then feared that he could not recover.
For law has no power to punish us for the vices which debilitate our constitution, destroy our substance, or degrade our character.
Many suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.
The causes assigned for these phenomena are chiefly those of a nature to debilitate or injure the plant; thus it has been frequently observed to follow the puncture of an insect.
In flesh wounds of weak and debilitated persons which are slow in healing, a diet of beef tea, eggs, oysters, etc., will often bring about a rapid improvement.
To avoid the tendency to debilitated frames and chronic diseases, woman should therefore learn not only the laws of her own physical life, but the relations in which she stands to the other sex.
About three months afterwards he had occasion to take it again; but it then produced no effect, and he was so debilitated that it was not urged further.
I think the Italians, quite apart from what is essential to their creed, have this very failing, and that it exerts a debilitating influence on their National character.
A low intellectual tone or lack of critical work on the part of a college has a debilitating influence on the student.
In debilitated subjects the administration of such remedies is at times attended with improvement in the cutaneous eruption.
Though the powerful mind of Galileo still retained its vigor, yet his debilitated frame was exhausted with mental labor.
In such a case diarrhea will no longer serve a good end, but will on the contrary debilitate the system.
And nearly all the men were weak and debilitated by reason of the prevailing type of illness, and in no condition whatever to be cracked through twenty miles or more on a hot day.
Excess of fat debilitated the heart and injured its working, just as a piece of wax attached to a tuning fork would impair its usefulness.
This heat would not be debilitating were it not for the extreme humidity of the atmosphere.
For most of the people involved, the words "stock options" worked their normal, morally debilitating magic.
It affects women of all ages, either married or virgins; and is produced by cold, fear, hunger, bad food, and other debilitating causes.
The same remark is applicable to very warm temperature combined with moisture, which is extremely apt to debilitate the solid part.
As soon as my debilitated frame would permit me, I set out on my dreary journey, to be the bearer of these dismal tidings.
The outlook is always good; and even in the case of weak and debilitated patients, there is excellent chance of cure.
Frequently I come in contact with women of thirty, and even twenty-five, so debilitated that they are far more fit for hospitals than to fill the sacred office of either wife or mother.
In old and debilitated patients, bony or even firm fibrous union seldom takes place, and it is generally advisable to get them out of bed as speedily as possible.
Medical treatment afforded me only temporary relief, and I became reduced in flesh, and very much debilitated.
The individual had recently recovered from a violent attack of disease, and was left much debilitated.
It is strongest in athletic men and strong animals, and weaker in relaxed and debilitated persons.
When no direct specific cause can be discovered and the animal is debilitated, give general tonic.
How should the food be given when both the digestive organs and general system are debilitated?
It was not merely by the debilitating influence of vicious indulgence on the nervous constitution that this effect was produced.
Strange to think of even our doctor here repeating his nonsense about debilitating climate.
And Durant actually smiled; for his own brain was softening under the debilitating influence.
Indulgence, however, should not be too frequent, lest it debilitate the pair and undermine their health.
The objections are, that the orchard cannot be so thoroughly cultivated, and the drain necessary to grow the extra trees might so debilitate the soil as to seriously affect succeeding crops.
The animal becomes so much weakened by the continual drain upon her, that the whole system is debilitated, and the brain shares the general disorder.
Falling of the vagina, or membrane lining the passage to the womb, is sometimes witnessed in animals that are much confined, and consequently of a debilitated habit.
I have seen most excellent results in weak animals recovering from a debilitating illness from its use, but great care must be taken that it is boiled properly.
It debilitated Sparta, exhausted Athens, and awoke Thebes, who fell on both but only to be eaten by Philip.
That he had it in him to be all these things she felt utterly convinced; but she proposed that the debilitating effects of too much happiness should have no chance of postponing his success.
Had she not abandoned Annandale he would have had no cause to threaten, Fanny would have lived, there would have been no shock to debilitate her and leave her a prey to disease.
It seems to me that, allowing for the heat of noon and the debilitating effect of the climate, the industry in agriculture and trade is rather striking.
She breathed like a fish thrown out on the bank, and her old head continually quivered in the nervous tremors of the extremely aged and debilitated person.
One morning when I felt so debilitated that I really thought my last hour was come, I ordered my servant to make me some broth.
A sensation of oppression which followed the imaginary blow, soon gradually passed away, though I felt, each succeeding day, more and more debilitated.
His wound was painful, and he was so debilitated that he was unable to discharge his duties.
"I cannot refuse you anything," said Philip; "but while you are so debilitated from your long illness, you neither must nor shall do anything to fatigue yourself."
Although the sample size is small, the results of our analysis of the condition of the deer are consistent with those from other studies, indicating that wolves prey primarily on debilitated deer.
The excessive heat here is very debilitating, especially coming after a somewhat rough spring.
They were at first believed to be dead, but as it proved, they were only debilitated from hunger: being then in the very last stages of famine.
Waring, suffering from the debilitating effects of the weather, indulged herself in the morning, and breakfasted in bed.
This discipline, far from debilitating the body, gives it a new strength, an endurance which enables man to live on a higher plane than he would if he followed natural impulses.
I had most of the time a severe pain in the pit of my stomach, and my appetite was far from being good, and so debilitated was I in strength that I have even been obliged to sit while I preached.
Forcing constant awareness of an illness upon a loved one is cruel and emotionally debilitating.
A long debilitating illness in which the mind became more and more abnormal and subject to fancies.
Such is generally the history of first attacks, especially in subjects who are not past the middle age, nor particularly debilitated from any special cause.
This is to prevent the free escape of water, which might debilitate the starch-making cells.
Mothers who have borne female children with but little constitutional strain or suffering may be greatly debilitated, even invalided, during pregnancy with male offspring.
If a cow be in a weak, debilitated state, or, in other words, "out of condition," she may turn out to be a source of great loss to the owner.
I was very weak on those two days, and as I took nothing more than lemon and beer, my stomach became thoroughly debilitated and refused to retain food.
Many of these worse than slaves were of good birth, tender education, and weak constitutions, unable to endure even the debilitating climate, and much less hard labor.
Transfusion consisted in the injection of the arterial blood of young and healthy animals into the veins of the aged and the debilitated.
As soon as Wilson's army took possession of our debilitated city general confusion reigned.