asthenic

• “This complaint, which I would call asthenic catarrh, requires directly opposite treatment from the inflammatory or sthenic catarrh.”

  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease

• “Powerfully depressing emotions, which are called by Kant "asthenic," such as great and sudden sorrow, grief, or fright, have a pronounced effect on the vital functions, at times even causing death.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “I got one wrong too, but in my case it was asthenic which tripped me up.”

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• “On one occasion, after a spontaneous outburst of appreciation, he said in palliation of his enthusiasm, “Pardon me, but this is an asthenic age — and true-hearted men are rare.””

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton

• “They would have loved Spider, because he was a perfect asthenic: lean with long limbs, long face, narrow trunk.”

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• “By contrast, the Gorgons seemed stately and dour, with sheirl Zuranie a frail asthenic wraith.”

  Trullion: Alastor 2262

• “Tch, tch," DeCastros said, "can anyone really be so asthenic as you seem, Mr. Wordsley?”

  The Marooner

• “Certain individuals pass in a few years from psychasthenic depression with doubts and obsessions to psychasthenic deliriums with stubbornness and negativism, then to asthenic insanity with irremediable and complete want of power.”

  A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921

• “Whatever be the disorders you may consider, aboulias, hysterical accidents, psychasthenic obsessions, periodical depressions, melancholics, systematized deliriums, asthenic insanity, you will always find a number of facts resulting from this general perturbation.”

  A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921

• “_Chronic cases, and others of an asthenic character_, are often very stubborn under the medicines of pharmacy, and are commonly the dread of physicians; yet, under scientific treatment by electricity, they rarely fail to lose their formidable character and to become obedient to the remedial agent.”

  A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication

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