"Inflammation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to time, continued her ministering to the injured foot, rubbing it with alcohol, to reduce the inflammation, she was questioned by her new acquaintances, and informed them of her recent bereavement and of her lonely condition, and stated that she was going to Boston to try to ...
— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... garden, to say a last word to somebody, a frosty bitter even some ten days back, with never so much as a kerchief tied o'er her head; and now is she laid of her bed, as was the only thing like, and may scarce breathe with the inflammation of her lungs. She may win through, but verily I ...
— Joyce Morrell's Harvest - The Annals of Selwick Hall • Emily Sarah Holt
... symptom occurs not only in plethora, as in the case of the learned Prussian we have just mentioned, but is a frequent hectic symptom—often an associate of febrile and inflammatory disorders—frequently accompanying inflammation of the brain—a concomitant also of highly excited nervous irritability—equally connected with hypochondria—and finally united in some cases with gout, and in others with the effects of excitation produced by several gases. In all these cases there seems to be a morbid degree of sensibility, ...
— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott
... he went towards his grounds, but, next morning, the doctor had to be sent for, and pronounced him very ill from an inflammation ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... Filaria. This is not, what its euphonious name may lead you to suppose, a fern, but it is a worm which gets into the white of the eye and leads there a lively existence, causing distressing itching, throbbing and pricking sensations, not affecting the sight until it happens to set up inflammation. I have seen the eyes of natives simply swarming with these Filariae. A curious thing about the disease is that it usually commences in one eye, and when that becomes over-populated an emigration society sets out for the other ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
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