urtication

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Chestnut, sweet 105 Fig 196 Hop 264 Lentil 305 Lily of the Valley (nervous 315 Lupine 306 Mushroom, French 374 Nettle-urtication 384 Orange, bitter 403 Potato, sweet 442 Sage 491 Salep 405 Sea Holly 499 Spinach 530 Truffles (children 371 DELIRIUM TREMENS.

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  1. noun The formation or development of hives.
  2. noun The sensation of having been stung by nettles.
  3. noun A lashing with nettles formerly used to treat a paralyzed part of the body.

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  • For sciatica, for incipient wasting, for the difficult breathing of some heart troubles (where such stimulation along the backbone affords more prompt and complete relief than any other treatment), for some coughs palsy, suppression of the monthly flow in women, rheumatism, and for lack of muscular energy, this urtication is said to be an invaluable resuscitating measure which has been successfully resorted to by the peasantry of Russia from time immemorial. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Chestnut, sweet 105 Fig 196 Hop 264 Lentil 305 Lily of the Valley (nervous 315 Lupine 306 Mushroom, French 374 Nettle-urtication 384 Orange, bitter 403 Potato, sweet 442 Sage 491 Salep 405 Sea Holly 499 Spinach 530 Truffles (children 371 DELIRIUM TREMENS. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • All exercise, often even walking, may be a sexual stimulant, and it is scarcely necessary to add that powerful stimulation of the skin in the sexual sphere, and more especially of the nates, is often a more effective aphrodisiac than any drug, whether the irritation is purely mechanical, as by flogging, or mechanico-chemical, as by urtication or the application of nettles. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • Numerous old cases of pleasure in flagellation and urtication were brought together by Schurig in 1720 in his Spermatologia_, pp. 253-258 The earliest definitely described medical case of sadistic pleasure in the sight of active whipping which I have myself come across belongs to the year 1672, and occurs in a letter in which Nesterus seeks the opinion of Garmann. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
  • The urtication of this shame made plays —  Toward the Gulf
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  1. = French urtication; as urticate + -ion.
 

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/ərtɪˈkeɪʃən/
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