And how should it be otherwise, since it is highly ridiculous to imagine that violent agitations, spasms, convulsions, etc. which are obviously symptoms of a diseased state of body, and which must increase rather than diminish the disposition to nervous diseases, can be the means of improving the constitution and ultimately of prolonging human life?

All this, the afflicted nun attended to; immediately after her prayers, she experienced a tingling sensation along the arm, and from that instant the cure rapidly advanced until the diseased limb became as sound as the other.

It was no doubt the result of a diseased frame, though it was universally held to be a divine visitation.

Eve Effingham; Eve Effingham, for what is your poor diseased soul destined!"

Deadly vices are nourished in the weak, diseased bodies that are penned, day after day, in filthy, crowded tenements of great cities.

A great traveller observes, that it is said there are no weak or deformed people among the Indians; but he with much sagacity assigns the reason of this, which is, that the hardship of their life as hunters and fishers does not allow weak or diseased children to grow up.

The proper use of reasoning is to produce opinion,and if the subject in which you wish to produce the opinion is diseased, you must adapt the medicine accordingly.'

The epithet was like a knout cutting through the decayed fibre of the man and raising a livid welt on his diseased soul.

One grumbler in a family is as pestilent a thing as a diseased animal in a herd: if he be not shut up or killed, the herd is lost.

A scrivener is his farrier, and helps to recover all his diseased and maimed obligations.

His appetite to his pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the pica in a woman that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness that eats chalk and mortar.

But the figure is the chief wonder, the figure of woman as she was meant to be, beautiful in superb vigor,not diseased and tottering, as with us, but erect and strong and stately; every muscle fresh and alive, from the crown of the steady head, to the sole of the emancipated foot,and yet not heavy and clumsy, as one fancies barefooted women must be, but inheriting symmetry and grace from the Portuguese or Moorish blood.

One day last winter, when some one was discussing the propriety of an amputation of the States that seemed thoroughly diseased, Ellsworth swept his hand energetically over the map of Mexico that hung upon the wall, and exclaimed,"There is an unanswerable argument against the recognition of the Southern Confederacy.

By this means sloughing of the diseased portion is quickly obtained, and nothing but an ordinary open wound left for treatment.

Pathological Anatomy of the Diseased Cartilage.

In this way the flexor perforatus is invaded, and comes to share in the diseased process.

In order to force the fluid to the bottom of each diseased track, it is necessary, when injecting one opening, to firmly close all others.

Professor Macqueen[A] says: 'I do not spare the coronary band or sensitive laminæ when I find those parts diseased.

When the condition becomes sub-horny, however, and particularly when it is situated in the region of the quarters, ease is afforded to the diseased parts by removing the bearing of the shoe in that position.

It so happens that the majority of cases of this kind occur in positions where the diseased bone is easily got at.

It appears, however, that other cases of the kind arise in which fracture is altogether absent, or in which it is plainly seen to be subsequent to the diseased processes in the bone.

The diseased process spreads until the ligaments of the joint, both by reason of their infiltration with the inflammatory discharges, and also on account of the ravages made on them by the invading pus, either greatly stretch or altogether rupture.

Such diseased portions, when dealing with the foot, are beyond reach of the surgeon's knife, and we have no alternative but to allow them to remain.

The same movement of the joint is given by causing the animal to put full weight upon the diseased limb, a small wedge of wood being first placed under the toe.

The second indication in the treatment is that of applying a counter-irritant as near to the diseased parts as possible.