It is my belief he is going into decline, and I have such a horror of contagious diseases!

As disinfectants, wormwood and rue were much in demand; and hence Tusser says: "What savour is better, if physicke be true, For places infected, than wormwood and rue?" For depression, thyme was recommended, and a Manx preservative against all kinds of infectious diseases is ragwort.

Men talked themselves into a fever, others took fire, and the epidemic spread like some obscure nervous disease.

I'm not an expert on mental diseases.

Seat of lameness somewhat obscure; navicular disease suspected.

Loss of time and money may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool-born, or a rogue in nature, are diseases incurable.

For the construction of their apparatus they had recourse to an ingenious artificer in copper and other metals, whose child the Brahmin had been instrumental in curing of a chronic disease, and in whose fidelity as well as good will they could securely rely.

The silkworm has long been known to be subject to a very fatal and infectious disease called the Muscardine.

This is found to afford instantaneous relief in difficulty of breathing, depending on internal diseases and other causes, where the patient, from a very quick and laborious breathing, is obliged to be in an erect posture. 2671.

They are 'gone down to Hades, even many stalwart souls of heroes,' with John Warde of Squerries at their headthe fathers of the men who conquered at Waterloo; and we their degenerate grandsons are left instead, with puny arms, and polished leather boots, and a considerable taint of hereditary disease, to sit in club-houses, and celebrate the progress of the species.

On an occasionsurely the old rascal's head is turned!he would be found in private talk with his hostess, the Lady of Middlesex, or with the Countess of Monmouth, not as you might expect, on the properties of fire or on the mortal diseases of man, buton subjects quite removed.

When the mother is affected strongly with a hereditary disease, such as consumption or scrofula; or when her constitution is tainted, as it were, with venereal disease, or other permanent affections.

The unfortunate people had been overtaken by the dreadful disease, and had been compelled to halt on their journey until it abated.

We look at him doing the splendid things amidst the plaudits of the multitude, but think of the monotonous, weary days, going up and down the sun-baked streets surrounded by a crowd of noisy beggars full of all sorts of loathsome disease, and the humdrum life in Nazareth; and all the time the great heart aching with that ceaseless sorrow,'His own received him not!'

Again, in painful diseases of the abdomen, the sufferer instinctively suspends the abdominal action and relies upon the chest breathing.

Her younger son, a lovely boy four years of age, was carried off by the same fearful disease.

So he came to his death, directly indeed of a long-standing organic disease, yet veritably self-destroyed.

In short, he is very ill, and yet he seems to have no bodily disease.

I suppose from the circumstance of the simple and mild form of the complaint being so tractable (provided it remain such) that the simplest and mildest measures effect its cure, parents are tempted to undertake its management in the more severe and complicated forms; and the result is but too often the establishment of disease dangerous to life, and sometimes fatal to it.

Their stock of provisions was almost exhausted, the water became putrid, and in consequence the poor men were attacked with that horrible disease the scurvy.

He continued "'The Professor, instead of taking a well-earned holiday in our land of roses and sunshine, proposes to study at first hand the micrococci of a deadly disease which, we are given to understand, is peculiar to this part of California....'" "Never heard of a deadly disease peculiar to these parts," said Jimmie thoughtfully,"always exceptin' Annie-dominie.

If this were not so, how comes it to pass that they suffer much more, not only from chronic, but from acute diseases, than children whose parents are in better circumstances?

Perhaps, now and then, a merry being may place himself in such a situation, as to enjoy, at once, all the varieties of an epidemical disease, or amuse his leisure with the tossings and contortions of every possible pain, exhibited together.

This plan, especially pursued during the night, along with judicious internal treatment, will save many children from perishing under the most insidious and fatal disease of childhoodwater on the brain.

'What wouldst thou have.' Quoth Arthur, King, 'of me?' "Quoth she, 'I have a foul disease Doth gnaw my very heart,