prostration

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Nervous Prostration is heroic treatment on the part of Nature.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

Prostration may be great, according to the violence and duration of the attack.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.

Prostration following severe shock was what the doctor called it, but it looked to me more like a touch of brain fever.

From The Tidal Wave and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

Prostration of credit, financial disaster, widespread distress among all classes of the community, would form the closing scenes in our career of gratuitous folly and national dishonor.

From Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Lewis, Harry A.

Prostration, or loss of muscular strength, is present from the beginning in a large number of cases of typhoid fever, but is generally not so marked in the early stages as in typhus fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various