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My limbs are miserably debilitated, and my nights are sleepless and tedious.
All mental excitement acts as a stimulant, and, like all stimulants, debilitates when taken in excess.
I am fearfully exhausted and debilitated by this attack.
They are sure to creep through the apertures, or, if barred there, will escape through the iron itself, and it need not be very much in quantity to prove offensive to people with delicate lungs or in a debilitated state of the system.
For five successive days I took him in my arms from his bed in the hut to the couch outside, and back again at sunset, after which time he was too much debilitated to be lifted from the bed on which he lay.
They are loaded up with the debilitating consequences of their own recklessness or ignorant manner of living.
At every corner was a mighty clamp, the weight of which had no doubt debilitated the box.
Clive was in no position to be avaricious and that a debilitating cartel in fact existed is found in her own essay.
This digression aside, there are debilitating factors in the housewife's lot which need some amplification.
Hunting dogs, when they grow old, become rheumatic, or are at least debilitated with pains.
Continuous propagation for many generations, under artificial conditions, so debilitated the constitution of Hollyhocks, Verbenas, and some other subjects, that the plants became victims of diseases which at one time threatened their existence.
Again he felt the sudden, sour turning of his stomach, and the debilitating flow of unused adrenalin.
In young and debilitated subjects hot poultices may produce injuries of the nature of burns.
Fierce, broiling days without even the debilitating moisture to ease the suffering citizens.
Exclaimed the father, in an agony that lifted his debilitated frame from its recumbent posture.
He goes from strength to strength while his audience is more and more piteously debilitated.
It would debilitate her as completely as if her belief were founded on cogent reason.
Then he made a third active, very light leap, and perched on the top of the sacred tree which grew on the smooth surface of the plain in which the inferior people and the debilitated of the men of Erin were seated, looking on at the battle.
The neglect of regular bathing results in overworking the liver and kidneys, and debilitates the skin.
If the horse becomes very much debilitated, stimulants of a more pronounced character are required.
A disease, however, having a close affinity to it was witnessed, but as in the only case that came fairly under our notice it was complicated with the symptoms of a previous debilitating disease, the diagnosis was difficult.
The same debilitating effect and the same injurious influences often result from the neglect of other organic wastes.
The plunge bath is specially depressing to every human energy, and should never be indulged by the debilitated.
They impair the memory, debilitate the understanding, and pervert the moral faculties.
This is a rule applicable to every constitution, but particularly to the sedentary and debilitated.
The patient becomes more debilitated and morose with an increasing tendency to sleep, hence the name sleeping sickness.
The specter attacked even the animals, and some cows were found debilitated and half dead.
It is very debilitating, and requires prompt and judicious treatment.
She was so languid and debilitated that he thought it would take her nearly all day.
In their sick and debilitated state they were without barracks, and almost without medicine.
Pure, cultivated, judicious, and natural style took on the aspect of debilitated languor and despicable affectation.
I repeated, as inadequately as before, knowing the uselessness of any debilitating touch of sympathy.
Now I have no disposition to defend the custom of going permanently chilly, in the case of any individual, however strong and healthy he may be; for it is most certainly, in the end, greatly debilitating.
A gentle drowsiness seems universally prevalent, a pleasant fatigue which is debilitating and dangerous.
Disease by this time seems to have debilitated and perverted the very moral nature of the prince.
This I greatly preferred to the route I came, as less fatiguing, less dangerous, better calculated to restore my debilitated system, and much more likely to afford new, interesting and useful information.
Anger is an understandable reaction to the discovery that one harbors a debilitating disease, for since everyone must eventually die, surely there are more pleasant routes toward that destination if given the right to choose.
With each successive stage, drug use intensifies, becomes more varied, and results in increasingly debilitating effects.
The first day's doctoring produced three diamonds, the second brought to light eight more, and the third day gave fourteen; and after all the debilitated patient triumphantly declared, "There's plenty more to come, Baas."
So, when great derangement of the mucous membrane exists, debilitating perspiration succeeds.
Percival and other veterinary writers inform us, that "an animal will lose about one fifteenth part of its weight of blood before it dies; though a less quantity may so far debilitate the vital powers, as to be, though less suddenly, equally fatal."
It appears from this experiment, that an animal will lose about one fifteenth part of its weight of blood before it dies; though a less quantity may so far debilitate the vital powers, as to be, though less suddenly, equally fatal.
It has been found useful in rickets, and in dyspepsia and worms, when occurring in debilitated habits.
It may be said that Darius, by these foreign wars, debilitated the kingdom which he endeavored to extend; this circumstance, however, it cannot be denied, increases the merit which he has of perfecting the internal organization of the empire.
The inmates received are very debilitated, and their work counts for nil on arrival.
The strain once over, she appeared slack, gaunt, debilitated.
The sudden spurt, the muscular strain, had told heavily upon his debilitated body.
Weak and trembling, like a man who had just recovered from a long and debilitating illness, I scrambled to my feet, and, aided by my companion, I seated myself on a chair that was standing near the table.
I recovered, by degrees, from this attack, but remained for some time in a debilitated, though convalescent, state.
Wearing flannel waistcoats in bed of a night is greatly debilitating.
The weak and debilitated feel little pain; feebleness has produced insensibility.
Special caution is necessary in giving it to anemic or debilitated persons.
How they managed to preserve their health I am not able to say; but, as a general thing, the men we receive here are very much debilitated, apparently from exposure, and want of sufficient food to keep up life and health.
For the past year I have lost ground; while these crises, as I call them, have debilitated and depressed me.
My body was very much debilitated; I suffered fearfully, wretchedly.
Rehabilitated buildings may house debilitated character.
They were very jolly, but their vigorous energy was, to a poor debilitated mortal, rather overpowering.
By doing this she simply makes a bad matter worse, for the application of any kind of plant food to weak and debilitated plants is on a par with giving rich food to a person whose stomach is not in a condition to make proper use of it.
Too often we neglect our gardens until they are in such a debilitated condition that we get but slight returns from them, and then we set to work to make them all over, and in this way we fail to get as much out of them as we ought to.
Here is another who, disregarding painful feelings, works too soon after a debilitating illness, and establishes disordered health that lasts for the rest of his days, and makes him useless to himself and others.
They are afraid of opening the eyes of the nation, by any overt act, to the dangers accumulating around them, before it is so thoroughly debilitated by the new system that any resistance would be hopeless, and therefore will never be attempted.
Again he gives a vacant look at his friends, gets up, resting his hands on the table, endeavors to keep a perpendicular, but declares himself so debilitated by his sleep that he must wait a little longer.
The peculiarly cold and persistent changes of temperature made the last season trying for the physical condition of our officers; added to this a class of winter cholera prevailed here, which was very debilitating.
Thus maimed and in debilitating agony, he was left to die for a few days.
It affects the debilitated and overworked, but it is also found in the well nourished and in the comparatively young.
The directors had insured the life of this gentleman, knowing, from private information, that his career had been gay, and his constitution debilitated, and they ought, on every principle of justice, to have been compelled to pay their obligation.
This was due to neuralgia from a generally exhausted and debilitated condition.
I was exceedingly debilitated by a continued fever and dysentery.
Had the ague daily, and kept my bed from its debilitating influence.
The same debilitating influences of a dictatorship were at work in Ministerial and Parliamentary life.
These people did not look debilitated, and they didn't seem to mind wasting calories.
The spasms were of an alarming character, and frequently left him in a weak and debilitated condition.
In fact, it is good for consumptive and debilitated females.
This is much used in dyspepsia and debilitated states of the digestive organs.
This exercise gave his system a healthy tone, and enabled him to master his lessons with more accuracy than some who confine themselves exclusively to their rooms, and become debilitated for the want of physical action.
All this it neglects: it appeared before us reduced and debilitated by the doctors who were physicking it.
It is very efficacious for strengthening weak, debilitated animals.
The animal is scanty of flesh, hide bound and in a general run-down and debilitated condition.
All epidemic diseases fix upon the infirm, the debilitated, and the fearful.
He was seized with a debilitating consciousness of his powerlessness in the face of death, and his ignorance of it.
Barclay always improved so much during the day, that no person who saw him then, had any idea of his debilitated state during the night; and those who saw him then were equally deceived as to his appearance during the day.
When the patient is much debilitated this exercise should be done by an operator, as in the passive exercises of the movement cure; for in such cases the nerves and brain would be still more weakened by voluntary exercise of the patient.
Taking hot food or drink habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.
On the higher slopes of Lebanon the summer months are cool and pleasant as on our native Catskills, but in the deep valley of the Jordan, and on the shores of the Dead Sea, the heat is as intense and debilitating as on the plains of Southern India.
I am much debilitated in body, and my memory sensibly on the wane.
Under these circumstances it was natural, that being himself aware of his debilitated state, he should have looked for counsel and assistance to one in whom their government had manifested such implicit confidence.
The men were, however, extremely debilitated, and remained a very long time convalescent.
At three o'clock this morning I was taken with sharp pains, nausea and other symptoms of cholera, and for the first time was obliged to ride in the ambulance, but towards evening was able to be up again, though very much debilitated.
A clove of garlic taken once or twice a day, has been found useful in debilitated habits predisposed to the gout.
Intense study has often rendered the body insensible to the debilitating effects of cold and hunger.
Crawford had become almost entirely debilitated by paralysis, both physically and mentally, which itself, aside from the knowledge which he possessed, that his influence could not elect him, was sufficient to induce his rejection.
She has stalled until a debilitating lethargy overcomes him.
The work is very debilitating, with particular effect on the nerves, and partial deafness is common.
I think the weather is very depressing and debilitating.
In the eighteenth century, however, people apparently thought that vast quantities of food and drink would combat the debilitating effects of the climate, and that, too, at a time when yellow fever was endemic.
Absence of a single womanly trait aborts or debilitates the offspring.
The almost total destruction of the American Indian, I attribute chiefly to the debilitating effects of this narcotic.
The European animals that live in this country are no less debilitated and diminutive than the human species.
It debilitates the brain and nervous system, thus inducing epileptic fits and nervous depression.
For example, attacks on the electrical power system of the enemy may debilitate his capacity to command and control his military forces, operate vital elements of the economy and thus degrade the political support required to sustain the conflict.