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It was natural that for an instant there should be a feeling as of absolute and helpless paralysis.
There is no longer the fear of fear, the dread of the hereafter, or the paralysis of strife.
Loss of consciousness, complete paralysis, small pulse, collapse, and within a few hours death may follow.
Hesitating, however, and delaying he was at length overtaken by a severe stroke of disease, a sudden paralysis.
Age, illness, too much wear and tear, a half-formed paralysis, may bring any of us to this pass.
When the paralysis is bilateral, the symmetrical appearance of the face renders the condition liable to be overlooked.
I know that their conjunction implies peace; I am persuaded that their separation means either war or paralysis.
The woman had been in bed twelve months with paralysis, and suffered much from being removed.
The hands of the clock seemed to be suffering from paralysis; they stayed so long in one spot.
Some severe cases result in a mania which may last for months; again, there is paralysis and delirium.
His hands and feet began to swell, and partial paralysis set in, accompanied by violent vomiting.
Whether the ordinary excessive use of it ever does cause paralysis, is, to say the least, extremely doubtful.
The effects of lightning on paralysis are very remarkable, in some cases curing, in others causing, that disease.
It was natural that, for an instant, there should be a feeling as of absolute and helpless paralysis.
They could not function in harmony when the strike threatened the paralysis of all railway transportation.
Easy, so easy to yield to this paralysis of terror, and to stand rooted there until they came!
Thirty-eight houses were set on fire, and owing to the paralysis of the fire department, were completely gutted.
Stewart stricken with paralysis, I was moved to offer my assistance while they both lay ill.
The drug killed pain, but only at the expense of a temporary paralysis of all voluntary motion.
We die like them only when age or disorders make us resemble them by the paralysis of our organs.
He gives as the reason for his quitting his post, his severe sufferings from stone and paralysis.
That is the condition of the young lady: paralysis of the brain and heart, coma and collapse.
At one time in his life he had been threatened with paralysis and his left side remained somewhat weakened.
What rendered Jeroboam's glory possible was the immediate paralysis and imminent ruin of the power of Syria.
The paralysis might have also affected her brain, and silenced her thoughts as well as her words.
Some authors however assert that it makes the danger greater of paralysis, and loss of memory, afterwards.
Among other diseases of a bacterial nature paralysis is most noticeable, although not to be dreaded as foul brood.
Frazier senior had been taken strangely and suddenly ill; had suffered from a partial stroke of paralysis.
Then why should he let his mental processes suffer paralysis whenever a nice woman looks at him?
The contempt for their commander, and the knowledge of their helplessness, crept over them like a paralysis.
It is said to be useful in paralysis, but has seldom been given beyond six grains in the day.
A stroke of paralysis was nature's first warning that the best days of his strength were over.
He felt suddenly cold at the thought, and then shame swept over him, forcing the paralysis aside.
It was on February 15, 1831, that the long threatened blow of paralysis fell on Sir Walter.
Five hundred Patrolmen in one long, incredible line, carrying paralysis guns with them in their tight hands.
Second, we wanted to impress you with the effectiveness of the invisible ship and the paralysis ray.
Demanded the captain, rising from the seat in which a paralysis of fury had kept him hitherto.
State the causes, and give the proper treatment of paralysis of the posterior portion of the body.
He just lay beneath his antagonist in a paralysis of fear, screaming at the top of his lungs.
If their assaults be upon nervous centers, or vital organs, the danger of paralysis or death becomes imminent.
Paralysis in the lower limbs was increasing, but the brain was clear, and the suffering less.
Her voice was growing louder and fiercer as the first paralysis of surprise died gradually away from her.
Further, the paralysis yields in spectacular fashion to various procedures or else disappears spontaneously in remarkable fashion overnight.
He was more scientific and accurate when he taught that paralysis results from a defect in the nerves.
Injury to the spinal cord, destroying the lower motor center for the legs, brings complete paralysis.
His career was arrested by paralysis late in 1791, and a repetition of the stroke terminated his life.
If the finger of paralysis had passed over her features, they would not have appeared more hopelessly fixed.
On the 29th of May he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which caused his death eight days later.
He could attribute it only to a paralysis of the optic nerve, the consequence of shock and exhaustion.
Two strokes of paralysis followed one another at a short interval, and on September 28, 1895, he died.
May it not be that a similar condition is produced by temporary paralysis of the brain in sleep?
Slowly she dragged herself back to the vision that had struck her with that paralysis of terror.
It is impossible to decide, when all the appearances are precisely like those of an ordinary attack of paralysis.
If a hundred a day burst for five weeks, people would begin to talk of the paralysis of commerce.
There is quite a good deal of this paralysis, and the case should receive careful attention from the start.
Fortunately, the wound had induced a local paralysis, and he was not suffering to any great degree.
She struggled to rise, but her limbs had left her, deserted her, stricken as if by paralysis.
The constant assumption of one position or the keeping of one part of the body still, may indicate paralysis.
Complete right facial paralysis; deaf, on right side cannot hear tick of watch either held close or in contact.
It produces complete paralysis, but not loss of consciousness, sensation, circulation, or respiration until the end approaches.
The paralysis of fear answered for him and supplied the best present plan, and he did nothing.
It is important to observe the order in which paralysis of the opposite side of the body comes on.
At this discovery there followed within him nothing less than a complete paralysis of thought and feeling.
Then the keepers recovered from their frozen paralysis, and rushed to the rescue of their young employer.
A sort of paralysis seemed to be settling about her heart, so that she could scarcely breathe, or move.
One of my intimate friends, whom I intended to visit in London, has just suffered a stroke of paralysis.
The thought about completed the work of mental and physical paralysis the shock of falling had begun.
The patient's spine was preparing itself for paralysis; it seemed that death was imminent at any moment.
I can't return to the city until the paralysis epidemic is over, so you have the advantage over me.
They asked me to stand up, and I made an attempt, and fell down again because of the paralysis.
Now they had been surprised and seized with the same deadly paralysis that had trapped Denny before.
The old man has got Bright's disease, you know, and he's already had two strokes of paralysis.
The heads of many of the convicts fell forward on their breasts, as if struck with sudden paralysis.
This sort of resistance may stretch the radial nerve or its branches in a way that paralysis results.
The growling increased, and once more the same paralysis attacked the boy so that he could scarcely breathe.
Their bite is without doubt extremely painful, and may cause violent headache, fainting fits, or even temporary paralysis.
He had been twice stricken with paralysis, and the use of his right hand had gone from him.
This nerve rarely or never escaped, and, as far as my experience went, the facial paralysis was permanent.
The various symptoms depend upon a temporary paralysis of the blood vessels which deprives the brain of blood.
He had known, in similar cases, instances of apparent total paralysis; but he had always found it temporary.
Paralysis of the soft palate has developed, apparently from a local saturation of the nerves with the poison.
About twenty of these illustrations were drawn with the left hand, owing to paralysis of the right side.
His tiny body was slowly diminishing, and complete, hopeless paralysis and death was not far away.
Her mind was caught in a brief paralysis of waiting for the next twitch of the minute hand.
This occurs most often as a result of wearing improper shoes, but is sometimes the consequence of paralysis.
The paralysis of the literary drama, then, has not been due to the indifference of the literary class.
It is the nervous poison that is the chief death-dealing agent, producing paralysis of the heart and respiration.
After some six or seven years of preliminary symptoms, Walt had now had a slight stroke of paralysis.
Misfortune followed misfortune, and Tobias, being no Job, lost patience, and died of a sudden stroke of paralysis.
We have seen a nurse place an uncovered bottle of boiling water at the feet of a patient with paralysis.
A vast, awed silence fell suddenly upon the room, a paralysis seized all forms and held them motionless.
In other cases trembling and uncertain gait, with paralysis of the spinal cord, have been observed in cows.
The preparations of lead seem to act upon the nervous system, destroying its energy, and thereby producing paralysis.
And, perhaps, like a creature of love, she had blindly felt love's slow, creeping paralysis, love's ultimate death.
There is a constant discharge of saliva from the mouth, far greater than when the true paralysis exists.
Within their area of distribution the paralysis is as complete as if the whole trunk had been cut across.
Paralysis, partial or complete, of the lower limbs, and even of the whole body, is not a rare occurrence.
Crawford had unfortunately been stricken with paralysis, and the choice of a vice-president became a matter of grave concern.
This shot had given it a momentary paralysis, which had caused it to drop so flat upon the ground.
"Father has not moved for two years," she said simply; "he was stricken with paralysis, you know."