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diaphoresis

[dahy-uh-fuh-ree-sis] / ˌdaɪ ə fəˈri sɪs /




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There is in use in this city, in the treatment of these and similar cases requiring diaphoresis, a convenient apparatus for generating steam.

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

The mother stated that the child had taken only two doses, or one-sixteenth of a grain, of pilocarpine when the diuretic effect was apparent and free diaphoresis also occurred.

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

Free diaphoresis resulted from the pilocarpine, and the quantity of urine was increased.

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

The bark is scraped from the trunk and a decoction thereof is used to induce diaphoresis.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman

Used as a vapor-bath it produces abundant diaphoresis, and the infusion given internally has a like effect.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas




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