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  • Nothing could be more irrational than to stop a diarrh [oe] a before it has accomplished its purpose.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • This part of the food-tube being naturally geared to discharge its contents downward, the simplest and easiest thing is to turn in a hurry call and cut down the normal schedule from hours to minutes, with the familiar result of an acute diarrh [oe] a. Both vomiting and purging are defensive actions on nature's part, remedies instead of diseases.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • Because the most striking symptoms of the disease are diarrh [oe] a, abdominal distention, and pain, and the most striking lesions after death ulcers in the small intestine, it was supposed that the process was confined to the abdominal organs.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • Roasted pomegranate rind in powder is found really effectual in dysentery and diarrh [oe] a. Men and women continually apply for philtres, and women for means to prevent their husbands from liking rival wives, or for poison to put them out of the way.

    Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

  • Typhoid fever, cholera, epidemic diarrh [oe] a, and some other prevalent diseases, are presumed by the germ theory to be chiefly, if not entirely, propagated by germs thrown off by

    Village Improvements and Farm Villages 1865

  • The Indian did not fail to remind us that an infusion of the glittering leaves of the _yoloxochitl_ is a remedy against diarrh [oe] a, and that its flowers, as their shape indicates, cure palpitation of the heart.

    Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

  • a wasting diarrh [oe] a from tuberculosis of the bowels, or from a violent attack of distention of the bowels due to tuberculous peritonitis.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • After headache, backache, and loss of appetite comes usually a mild diarrh [oe] a. This diarrh [oe] a is due to an attack of the bacillus or its toxins upon certain clumps of lymphoid tissue in the wall of the small intestine, known as the "patches of

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

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