jugulate

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Even Louis, who had not wholly given up venesection, used now and then to order that a patient suffering from headache should be bled in the foot, in preference to any other part But what Louis did was this: he showed by a strict analysis of numerous cases that bleeding did not strangle,--jugulate was the word then used,--acute diseases, more especially pneumonia.

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  1. To kill by cutting the jugular vein; cut the throat of. Carlyle, French Rev., I. iii. 7. [Rare.]
  2. To arrest suddenly, as the progress of a disease, by therapeutic measures.

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  • Even Louis, who had not wholly given up venesection, used now and then to order that a patient suffering from headache should be bled in the foot, in preference to any other part But what Louis did was this: he showed by a strict analysis of numerous cases that bleeding did not strangle,--jugulate was the word then used,--acute diseases, more especially pneumonia. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • But what Louis did was this: he showed by a strict analysis of numerous cases that bleeding did not strangle, -- jugulate was the word then used, -- acute diseases, more especially pneumonia. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
 

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  1. from Latin jugulatus, past participle of jugulare (later Pg, jugular = French juguler), cut the throat of, kill, from jugulum., the hollow of the neck above the collar-bone: see jugular.
 

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