How To Use Convulsion In A Sentence

Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
The only treatment is symptomatic and supportive therapy and using sedatives to control convulsions.
When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent. Chapter LIV
Potential lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions are recognised complications of both iatrogenic and self inflicted overdoses.
No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or marks of the devil.

Her ordeal began in November when she started having fits and convulsions despite no previous history of health problems.
A spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth.
Febrile convulsions can be frightening for parents, especially as they look like epileptic fits.
Are his lame slapstick antics intended to send us into convulsions of laughter?
We are arrested, fascinated, by a convulsion of sound to which we are unable to assign a meaning.
The only other interaction between an antimicrobial drug and alcohol is with cycloserine, an anti-tuberculosis drug – the two together increase the risk of convulsions. Doctor, doctor: Alcohol and antibiotics, milk and prostate cancer
At some future time I hope to take up the epileptoid convulsions and show their relationship and variation from that of the mechanism of essential epilepsy. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Whoever would have thought that an item no bigger than an aspirin tablet would have caused such moral, social and even political convulsions?
The downhills offer little relief, as long leaping strides will send your quads into convulsions.
Serious side effects, such as convulsions, are more likely to occur in younger patients and would be of greater risk to infants than to older children or adults.
Admit that you sometimes get uncontrollable convulsions like that.
- Encephalitis: fever, neurological signs, convulsions, coma, sometimes meningism with a clear CSF. Chapter 13
Such substances cause an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, hallucinations, convulsions, and respiratory depression.
Illnesses that most commonly cause febrile convulsions include viral upper respiratory infections such as flu, ear infections, or roseola (a virus causing a temperature and rash).
The political and social convulsions afflicting our neighbour will have severe repercussions for the rest of Europe
Besides which he had a difficulty of breathing upon him, and had a convulsion of all his members, insomuch that the diviners said those diseases were a punishment upon him for what he had done.
Methods:To compare the Anticonvulsive effect of water-soluble extracted at different temperature from Pinellas Rhizoma by the index of mortality and tonic convulsion induced by strychnine in mice.
The highest eulogy that can be pronounced on the intellectual character of a ruler, in times of great civil convulsion, is that it is his policy to have no policy, content with keeping his ship trim as he permits her to sweep downwards with the precipitous torrent. An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln
Although pre-eclampsia cannot be completely cured before the delivery, administering drugs such as magnesium sulfate can lower a woman's risk of developing convulsions (eclampsia), which can be fatal.
In the end, you make the -- we're going through a kind of short-term convulsion, and normal will be what normal was, maybe a titch (ph) different? CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2001
Performance after scintillating performance emitted from audiences enormous peals of laughter, convulsions and from one patron in particular - very, very audible heaving.
_howling_ dervishes; all our religion consisted in howling like jackals or hyenas, with all our might, until we fell down in real or pretended convulsions. The Pacha of Many Tales
Doctors warn of the more serious condition, called eclampsia, which is characterized by headache, disturbances of vision, vomiting, pain in the stomach, and possibly convulsions or coma. Understanding the Dozen Discomforts and Complications of Pregnancy
There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the Doctor's [i.e. her stepfather's room], but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.
The most effective treatment before 1960 for severe and disabling depression was electro-convulsion therapy.
The whole vast plain in which it "towers alone," is covered with the evidences of volcanic action; can it then, in one of those tremendous efforts of nature, which scattered these fragments of rock over so great an extent, have been upheaved from the bed of the earth, and left as a monument of some mighty convulsion? Life in the Rocky Mountains
In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
Only yourself, and Abraham Chaumieux, the vinegar merchant and crucified convulsionary, could be capable of broaching so infamous A Philosophical Dictionary
In the event of political convulsions arising from the deepening social and economic crisis of the profit system, the old structure of two big business parties alternating in office may be blown apart.
The election results thus portend a new period of social convulsions.
The convulsions did not respond to phenobarbitone, phenytoin, clonazepam, lignocaine, or pyridoxine, which were tried according to our hospital's guidelines for the management of neonatal seizures.
This child was described as brain-damaged and subject to continuous convulsions. Clinical Work with Adolescents
From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
Mauritian sega dancing starts somewhere around the pelvis and doesn't stop until the dancers are limbo-arched backwards in a wild, shake-that-thing convulsion.
The country was in ruin and convulsion.
One explanation of the apparent high death rate from infant tetanus was that it was mistaken for tetany, which causes convulsions and has been traced to a deficiency of calcium and other vital minerals during pregnancy.
It has alsocaused some people to haverespiratory issues, convulsions andhigh blood pressure. Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » What is Cyclosporine?
Recently a dose of ninety-six grains, taken toxically, produced giddiness, then epileptic convulsions, with dilated pupils, and stertor of breathing. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
If taken in large doses, the pinkroot is said to produce narcotic effects that may cause enhanced heart action, giddiness, lightheadedness or vertigo, unclear or diffused vision, muscular spasms, convulsions and even prove to be fatal. Find Me A Cure
Elsewhere we see a young man strapped onto gurneys and administered violent shocks that trigger convulsions; we can only guess whether his screams quelled the pain.
“It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan. Discourse.net: Shadows on Plato's Cave: Giant Hologram Version
The patient lost consciousness and went into convulsions.
Once the basic networks were in place, the economic and political convulsions of the 1920s and 1930s led to the second stage.
Such a convulsion is the struggle of gradual suffocation, as in drowning; and, in the original Opium Confessions, I mentioned a case of that nature communicated to me by a lady from her own childish experience. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
Anna didn't know how to make up silly words like Hilda used to, words like ‘frubbelshnik’ that would send me into convulsions of giggles.
Acute neonatal hypocalcaemia results in tetany and convulsions, usually at 5 to 14 days of age.
From bloody coups to tribal and religious strife, that country hardly enjoys more than a few months without bloodletting and political convulsions.
One girl in a blue sari was now shaking her long mane of hair backwards and forwards as she was seized by a series of impossible convulsions.
The appearance of convulsions which have been preceded by one or more of the symptoms noted under the head of "toxemia," indicates that the patient has become so profoundly intoxicated and poisoned by the accumulating toxins, that the lives of both mother and child are jeopardized by threatened eclampsia. The Mother and Her Child
His temperature was very high and he went into convulsions .
On the other hand, Pascal, who did not appear in the other book, found a place in this as a curiosity; and Christophe learned by the way that the convulsionary Jean-Christophe, Volume I
Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it.
(EP-uh-lep-see) A disorder of the brain characterized by sudden, recurring attacks of abnormal brain function, often resulting in convulsions or seizures. Epilepsy
Did you know that eel is never served raw because the blood carries a neurotoxin (a cubic centimeter of which injected into a rabbit causes instant convulsions and death)? James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish
Dick had an epileptic fit, or, more properly speaking, an epileptiform convulsion, which had lasted about half an hour, and endangered his life. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
If the child has a history of epilepsy, it can be difficult to tell the difference between febrile convulsions and epileptic fits.
Deficiency leads to no specific disease but causes convulsions in infants and skin disorders and peripheral neuritis symptoms in adults. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
a happier place than it is; that there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth; that we miscreate our own evils. Essays — First Series
But if it scuttled down into the depths of my body no power could prevent my violent convulsion. SKORPION'S DEATH
His Adam's apple went into convulsions every time he swallowed and his lips were unusually full.
On the fourteenth, frequent convulsions; extremities cold; not in anywise collected; suppression of urine. Of The Epidemics
This can lead to convulsions, seizures and permanent brain damage in some.
It has been postulated that mesial temporal sclerosis may be related to a complicated delivery, febrile convulsions during childhood, and status epilepticus.
The recent convulsions on the stock markets have generated new interest in alternative investments, such as art, furniture and jewellery.
Surdosage Le surdosage peut se manifester par des convulsions, un coma, une mydriase (dilatation des pupilles), une hypotension (baisse de la pression artérielle) sévère, une arythmie (irrégularités du rythme cardiaque). Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Many parents' dread of fevers has to do with the fear of fever convulsions or brain damage.
A sudden convulsion shook him, and he fell to the ground.
As grandmas go into palpitating convulsions of disbelief, and all of contemporary society looks down at me from their pedestals of purity, let me just state that I'm not average.
Signs of an overdose include convulsions and pinpoint pupils of the eyes.
Ce medicament NE DOIT PAS ETRE UTILISE chez les enfants ayant des antecedents de convulsions! How to Snore in French
Westerner, and blend it with the history and literature of my age, and conclude it with his death, it seems like some tragic play, superior to all else I know -- vaster and fierier and more convulsionary, for this America of ours, than Eschylus or Shakespeare ever drew for Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake. Archive 2007-11-01
These seizures manifested not only focal convulsion of face or limb, but also choreoid or athetoid involuntary movements.
Other drugs, such as local anaesthetics, those that interfere with nerve conduction, and anticonvulsants (drugs used to prevent seizures and convulsions) have been found to reduce symptoms in some people.
+ Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the face or head, but on the back, and not in men but children, as I long ago observed in that endemial distemper of children in Languedoc, called the morgellons, + wherein they critically break out with harsh hairs on their backs, which takes off the unquiet symptoms of the disease, and delivers them from coughs and convulsions. Letter to a Friend
Peter's wink sent Jes right back into convulsions and minor hysterics.
Can we develop early warning systems to protect ourselves from nature's convulsions in earthquake and storm?
During a seizure, the body goes into convulsions.
The country will go through numerous social and even political convulsions as it balances liberalization and a reform agenda with the need to maintain stability, peace and order.
Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning.
The very phrase, "I couldn't help but wonder," that signals the beginning of her musings on sexology, can propel me into convulsions of creative identification. What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing
The feature that stands out in this long life of suffering, of martyrdom in her early years and always of convulsion [Page 296] and vicissitudes, is perfect truth, perfect simplicity, and, it may be said, entire and unalterable consistency. The Ruin of a Princess
An awful fit of “epileptiform convulsions,” the result of suppressed gout, followed, and the local doctors who were called in came to the conclusion that The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Half the country is starving, and that is a recipe for massive political convulsions.
At the clinic she was given injectable quinine, diazepam for the convulsions and intravenous dextrose for hypoglycaemia. Times, Sunday Times
If too large a dose of apiol be taken it will cause headache, giddiness, staggering, and deafness; and if going still further, it will induce epileptiform convulsions. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
We excluded provoked seizures, acute symptomatic seizures, and febrile convulsions.
Convulsions look terrifying, but they are rarely fatal unless they recur repeatedly.
Elsewhere in the city, however, the convulsions of anarchy appeared to be petering out.
The story was so funny it had us in convulsions.
The patient lost consciousness and went into convulsions.
For the rest, the blows were never administered except during the torments of convulsion; and at that time the tympany The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
The convulsions of the earth's climate are only part of a familiar, doom-laden equation.
Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation. The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
A tetanic convulsion wracked Spock's body, arching his spine and forcing from him a shuddering, anguished scream. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
And beneath this thick canopy the unseen deep would literally "boil as a pot," wildly tempested from below; while from time to time more deeply seated convulsion would upheave sudden to the surface vast tracts of semi-molten rock, soon again to disappear, and from which waves of bulk enormous would roll outwards, to meet in wild conflict with the giant waves of other convulsions, or return to hiss and sputter against the intensely heated and fast foundering mass, whose violent upheaval had first elevated and sent them abroad. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
If treatment is not immediate, the victim's condition can deteriorate to convulsions, brain damage, and eventual death.
But first, the poor thing must endure violent convulsions: ‘In great heaving waves the old hero would vomit basinfuls of gruelly white flocculent matter, the color of soap in hard water.’
The economy is stagnating and the effects of a war threaten to cause violent social convulsions.
America, and other monometallic countries; and as a result, they have almost entirely escaped those fearful convulsions have that threatened the political stability of great nations. If Not Silver, What?
Febrile convulsions are fits that sometimes happen in a child with a high temperature.
And as a convulsionary lady complained that he struck too lightly to relieve the feeling of depression at her stomach, he gave her sixty blows with all his force. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
It may present as a convulsion, unusual body movement, change in awareness or simply a blank stare.
There was reported the case of an hysterical female who had convulsions and mania, alternating with anuria of a peculiar nature and lasting seven days. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Paitoon, a mango farmer, was admitted to Manorom Christian Hospital with tetanic convulsions.
The child reacted to the drug by going into convulsions.
Cake cats can cause corybantic coeliac convulsions! Stop the Insanity!!
Rooibos helps us healthy , calms convulsion, prevents aging, improves anemia, eases diarrhea and relieves allergic symptom.
We gaze at the sky from the bottom of a savage granite _barathrum_, whence there is no escape but return through the chinks and over the crags of an Old-World convulsion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
There's another warping convulsion, and spittle sails from his mouth.
Well-known as a felicitous writer of amusing features, he was just hitting his stride as a serious and ambitious chronicler of the political convulsions seizing the Islamic world.
Pine held his ribs for the next round of convulsions and dodged Stan's sideswipe. THE MANANA MAN
a substance known as "epinephrin" secreted by the glands located just above the kidneys which is thrown into the blood stream and which raises the blood pressure of the mother and often produces not only colic in the babe, but many times throws him into severe convulsions. The Mother and Her Child
Gilboa, and a Parisian convulsionary, who scribbles ecclesiastical notices in his garret, in 1758, is wonderfully striking. A Philosophical Dictionary
Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium.
Convulsions took him over and he was thrashing, shaking, screaming, but he didn't know it.
Over-exposure to thallium may cause nerve damage, emotional changes, cramps, convulsions and eventually coma which can lead to death caused by respiratory paralysis.
Aspiration of aliphatic hydrocarbons may result in lethargy, tremors, and, rarely, convulsions or coma. Hydrocarbon Ingestion
At considerable intervals I had two or three attacks of convulsionary fits. The Opium Habit
Objectives : To explore clinical characteristic of febrile convulsion ( FC ) and the meaning of electroencephalogram changes.
The vaccine was likely to be associated with benign thrombocytopenic purpura, parotitis, joint and limb complaints, febrile convulsions within two weeks of vaccination and aseptic meningitis (mumps) (Urabe strain-containing MMR). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
What the vaginal convulsion that says normally points to is to be in copulative before, the vagina produces intense systole, convulsion, the penis cannot be inserted consequently.
Their original application was in febrile diseases where symptoms of high fever, delirium and convulsions occurred.
In some cases, hyperthermia (high body temperature) and convulsions can lead to death, according to NIDA.
_ -- Although there is no disease of the nervous system which can be properly termed convulsive, or justify the use of the word convulsion to indicate any particular disease, yet it is often such a prominent symptom that a few words may not be out of place. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The patient lost consciousness and went into convulsions.
** paramorphine, an opiate alkaloid (opioid license here, because instead of depressing the central nervous system, it resembles strychnine in its action, causing tetanic convulsions). Latest amIright Song Parodies
The convulsion is a substitute for the criminal act. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Whatever may be the remote cause of paroxysms of asthma, the immediate cause of the convulsive respiration, whether in the common asthma, or in what is termed the convulsive asthma, which are perhaps only different degrees of the same disease, must be owing to violent voluntary exertions to relieve pain, as in other convulsions; and the increase of irritability to internal stimuli, or of sensibility, during sleep must occasion them to commence at this time. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Look at "Nervous Systems" which reads "Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute scloerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS); febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Then the dollar began to stabilize, which threw the Dow into violent convulsions until October 2002, when the dollar resumed its downtrend.
Other therapeutic uses include management of convulsions, leprosy, and rheumatic pain.
Convulsions look terrifying, but they are rarely fatal unless they recur repeatedly.
The country is undergoing pangs of change and this is causing social convulsions that occasionally take on violent forms.
If hyponatremia develops rapidly, muscular twitches, irritability and convulsions can occur.
Fereol speaks of a case of vertigo, accompanied with epileptic convulsions, which was caused by teniae. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Gina smiled at him, but he stayed in his vaulted position; he was in another convulsion. THE DICE MAN
His entire body ached, his convulsions had strained muscles he didn't even know he had and he felt decidedly weak.
This was a time of political and social convulsion throughout Europe.
Look at "Nervous Systems" which reads "Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute scloerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS); febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
China, the most populous nation of the globe, was in convulsion, its regime still undecided. Fifteen Years at the World Bank
Symptoms of HCN poisoning are due to oxygen starvation at the cellular level and include laboured breathing (dyspnoea), intense red conjunctive, frothing at the mouth, bloat, convulsions and a staggering gait. Chapter 4
When these are reduced, if the hands are contracted, and become trembling, convulsion and delirium seize such a person; but blisters break out on the eyebrow, erythema takes place, the one eyelid being tumefied overtops the other, a hard inflammation sets in, the eye become strongly swelled, and the delirium increases much, but makes its attacks rather at night than by day. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
Two weeks later, he was referred back to hospital after becoming semi-conscious and having convulsions.
At times I had to stab the pause button on my remote control while enduring this concert; such was the convulsion of my laughter.
Larger doses of fluoride can cause life-threatening hypocalcemia with convulsions, tetany, decreased myocardial contractility, ventricular arrhythmias, and cardiac arrest.
Captain Nemo alerted his companion to this hideous crustacean, which a swing of the rifle butt quickly brought down, and I watched the monster's horrible legs writhing in dreadful convulsions.
These would certainly have involved massive geological and tectonic movements, releasing water trapped beneath the earth's crust, and also involving all manner of major convulsions.
Overheating, irritability, and sudden anger, almost invariably tend to raise the blood-pressure, which means the entry into the blood stream of an increased amount of epinephrin, which disturbs the baby greatly, often throwing him into convulsions or other sudden, acute illness. The Mother and Her Child
Huge sobs shuddered throughout her body, causing involuntary convulsions to tremble in her heart.
I have not a thing to say; no thing is of more importance than another; I am flatter than a denial or a pancake; emptier than Judge ” ” 's wig when the head is in it; duller than a country stage when the actors are off it; a cipher, an O! I acknowledge life at all, only by an occasional convulsional cough, and a permanent phlegmatic pain in the chest. Selected English Letters
In the midst of all these convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the hour is God.
It has been happening again with dubstep, the latest underground sound undergoing overground convulsions. Magnetic Man by Magnetic Man – review
Dewees 6.61 reports a case of puerperal convulsions in a patient under his care which was attended with sudden canities. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Tactile and auditory stimuli provoke convulsions with opposthotonis.
_ -- Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Some such convulsion as geologists declare has already frequently befallen our earth; and, as they prophesy, is shortly coming again. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."
A watery gateway to the USA's Pacific Northwest, the Sound itself is a giant product of Earth's violent convulsions.
This can lead to convulsions, seizures and permanent brain damage in some.
Symptoms of epilepsy can include brief loss of awareness, muscle contractions, convulsions, mental confusion and sometimes lack of consciousness.
(Which can lead to convulsions, and can leave the child deaf or mentally retarded.) "Complications from mumps infection can include meningitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord), orchitis (swelling of the testicles), oophoritis "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader
Epileptics were supposedly possessed by spirits that threw them to the ground and tormented them with convulsions.
_ -- Although there is no disease of the nervous system which can be properly termed convulsive, or justify the use of the word convulsion to indicate any particular disease, yet it is often such a prominent symptom that a few words may not be out of place. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Seizures can be fatal, especially the rare status epilepticus, a continuous convulsion lasting longer than 10 minutes. In the Grip of the Unknown
Animals that had only slight tremors and no convulsions did not show any lesions.
The convulsions did not respond to phenobarbitone, phenytoin, clonazepam, lignocaine, or pyridoxine, which were tried according to our hospital's guidelines for the management of neonatal seizures.
It is specific for asthma and oppressed breathing, hiccup, whooping cough, spasmodic croup, tetanus, hydrophobia, hysteria paroxysms and hysterical convulsions.
Children may have high fever, rectal prolapse and convulsions.
The decision should also take into account a likely traumatising parental experience as in febrile convulsions.
Aspiration of aliphatic hydrocarbons may result in lethargy, tremors, and, rarely, convulsions or coma. Hydrocarbon Ingestion
The patient lost consciousness and went into convulsions.
Parenteral paraldehyde may be indicated in the emergency treatment of status epilepticus and of convulsions induced by tetanus or eclampsia, when other agents are not effective.
The reasons were unknown, but onlookers seem to agree it looked like convulsions or spasms.
It was another week of extraordinary developments and violent financial convulsions.
Then the TV glows to life and fills with jumpy, amateur-hour footage of some kind of mass convulsion.
In 1940, curare was introduced to moderate the vertebrae-cracking force of the convulsions, and succinylcholine was introduced in 1952.
This reaction can include anxiety, agitation, muscle twitches, nausea, confusion and convulsions.
The book has an epic scope — it is a picture of a planet in convulsion — without foregoing the detail of everyday life or a sense of the moment. Deals
In Barbados Mr Ody, master mate of the Arab, was poisoned by eating "a Mangereen apple", causing "severe vomiting and violent convulsions, I poured down a good quantity of sweet oil, applied the warm bath, gave him a calomel purge & the next morning he brought away a considerable quantity of blood and skins of the stomach being corroded by the virulence of the fruit". Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood.
Swelling also may occur in the brain and can cause emergency symptoms such as seizures or convulsions.
Off on pressing business," cried the sanguine youth, as he dashed through the kitchen, frightening Alice, and throwing Toozle into convulsions of delight -- "horribly important business that ` won't brook delay; 'but what _brook_ means is more than I can guess. Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and deliquium come on, it is bad. Aphorisms
“I could not control it,” he said, “and my back and legs hurt; it was almost like tetany violent muscle spasms and convulsions.” Bitter Harvest
Gina smiled at him, but he stayed in his vaulted position; he was in another convulsion. THE DICE MAN
Most frequently pain of body is the cause of convulsion, which is often however exchanged for madness; and a painful delirious idea is most frequently the cause of madness originally, but sometimes of convulsion. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
If the reaction is severe, or if coma or convulsions occur, epinephrin or intravenous glucose should be given. Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture
After violent screaming she fell into convulsions, which terminated sometimes in fainting, with or without stertor, as in common epilepsy; at other times a tempory insanity supervened; which continued about half an hour, and the fit ceased. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
I feel like low voltage electricity is flowing through my blood, gentle convulsions rippling through my skin and muscle, as my body is making its own judgment of the situation.
But if it scuttled down into the depths of my body no power could prevent my violent convulsion. SKORPION'S DEATH
But from the standpoint of their political consciousness, the stock market convulsions must have a fundamentally healthy impact.
Anticonvulsant drugs may also be prescribed to protect against convulsions due to eclampsia.
I was racked with convulsions as I tried to muffle the incessant hacking by stuffing my scarf in my mouth.
the convulsions of the stock market
The immoral orgasm which caused by the curiosity was instantly met is equal to the love convulsion of "telesthesia", there is no such fools in the world.

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