excitants

"Savarin/BalZac: Du gout des excitants sur l'écriture moderne."

Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire' 2007

It's a carefully chosen combination of visual excitants, pheromones, and other characteristics beyond my comprehension.

The I Inside Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

Carotidien et la Zone Homologue Cardio-aortique, with J.J. Bouckaert and P. Regniers (1933); Sensibilité réflexogène des vaisseaux aux excitants chimiques, with J.J. Bouckaert (1934); «Le centre respiratoire», with D. Cordier in Ann. Physiol.

Corneille Heymans - Biography 1965

It was always one of Champney's prime youthful joys to urge the Colonel, by judiciously applied excitants, to a greater flowering of eloquence; so, now, as an inducement he wrung his neighbor's hand and thanked him warmly for his timely recognition of the new Flamsted about to be.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

It is not a question of the moderate use of excitants, but the limit between use and abuse is difficult to trace, because it varies according to the country, the climate, and the habits of the individual constitution.

Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life Alfred Arthur Reade

The scant costumes permitted, with their conscious endeavor to reveal the feminine form as alluringly as possible, the voluptuous dances and ballets, the jokes, stories, and suggestive gestures, and often the low moral tone of the play, making light of sacred matters and encouraging lax ideas on sex relations, are powerful excitants.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

Probably the most fatal and common excitants of the latent seeds of scrofula are insufficient or improper food, and want of ventilation.

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

Anger, fear, and grief are also strong excitants and, therefore, are stimuli to motor activity.

The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915

Now the emotions are as purely motor excitants as is pain.

The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915

Modern philosophy, on the other hand, has endeavored since the time of John Locke, to reject altogether from the realm of ideas the concept of substance as something imaginary, and to rest satisfied with qualities alone as the excitants of sensation, a view of the material world which the so-called psychology of association and actuality is trying to carry out in its various details.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913