depletive

And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, which we lose what we have, which oscillate, and they oscillate until we lose everything we've got.

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And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, which we lose what we have, which oscillate, and they oscillate until we lose everything we've got.

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And that's the difference between problems that are additive, like CO2, which we go slowly up and then we tip, and problems that are depletive, which we lose what we have, which oscillate, and they oscillate until we lose everything we've got.

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The prevailing emphasis on the significance of inflammation as a sign of disease, for example, led to the widespread use of depletive or antiphlogistic i.e., antiinflammatory measures such as general bloodletting.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

By the 1830s most alienists believed that heroic* depletive measures were harmful, but they continued to employ local bleeding.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

The prevailing emphasis on the significance of inflammation as a sign of disease, for example, led to the widespread use of depletive or antiphlogistic i.e., antiinflammatory measures such as general bloodletting.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

By the 1830s most alienists believed that heroic* depletive measures were harmful, but they continued to employ local bleeding.

The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

Sydenham, Hoffman, Cullen, and our own good Dr. Rush, whose depletive and mercurial systems have formed a school, or perhaps revived that which arose on Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.

The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950 1954

This simple arrangement for health was considered enough in those primitive times, when the human system had not been worn out and exhausted by depletive medicines.

Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Coupled with the new method of physical diagnosis in the effort to substitute knowledge for guess-work came the studies of the experimental physiologists -- in particular, Marshall Hall in England and François Magendie in France; and the joint efforts of these various workers led presently to the abandonment of those severe and often irrational depletive methods -- blood-letting and the like -- that had previously dominated medical practice.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904