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Irritative phenomena, such as twitchings or contractures, may come on later.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Irritative lesions in general produce muscular spasms or convulsions, while destructive lesions cause paralysis.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Irritative lesions of the sensory mechanism cause numbness and tingling (paræsthesia); more extensive paralytic lesions produce anæsthesia, astereognosis, loss of muscle sense, loss of pain, or inability to distinguish temperature, according to the tracts that are affected.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The symptoms which distinguish Irritative fever are a dry and red tongue; a sharp, small, but frequent pulse; subsultus; restlessness and delirium, which soon give place to signs of debility, with coma and cerebral irritation, sudden exacerbations, unequal and irregular remissions; rapid and important changes are also frequent concomitants of this form of disease.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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Irritative Fever is a variety of the asthenic form though not of so specific a type as the last.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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The second which is of a decided asthenic character, presents itself under three forms, viz: Typhoid Fever, Irritative or Nervous Fever, and Hectic Fever.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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Irritative fever had set in with great violence, and this was the beginning of the hard struggle for life that lasted many days, during which delirium, stupor, and brief lucid intervals followed each other with the rise and fall of the fever.
For Woman's Love Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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Irritative ideas are those which are preceded by irritation, which is excited by objects external to the organs of sense: as the idea of that tree, which either I attend to, or which I shun in walking near it without attention.
Canto III 1803
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_ Irritative fever, described in Class I. 1. 1. 1.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Irritative fever, described in Class I. 1. 1. 1. 2.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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