 | Robert Hooper - 1817 - 886 lapas
...dependant on another. IDIOSYNCRASY. (Idiotyncraria ; from if us, peculiar »BT, with, and xgonc, a temperament.) A peculiarity of constitution, in which...people cannot see a finger bleed without fainting ; and thus violent inflammation is induced on the skin of some persons by substances that are perfectly... | |
 | Daniel H. Whitney - 1835 - 614 lapas
...which respect it is opposed to a symptomatic disease, which is dependent on another. Idiosyncrasy. A peculiarity of constitution, in which a person is...a hundred other persons, would produce no effect; (bus some people cannot i>ije a finger bleed without fainting, and thus violent inflammation is induced... | |
 | 1839 - 442 lapas
...In reply, I would ask why the same causes do not always produce the same effect in all — why " one person is affected by certain agents, which, if applied...a hundred other persons, would produce no effect" — why, of the multitude of operatives who enter our cotton mills, a few, who on entering are as robust... | |
 | W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - 768 lapas
...opposed to symptomatic and sympathetic. IDIOS^N'CBACY, from i^to;, peculiar, m>v, with, and xgatrif, a temperament. A peculiarity of constitution, in which a person is affected by certain agents, which produce no effect on the generality of persona. ID'IOT. In late, one born without understanding, or... | |
 | 1856 - 530 lapas
...human practitioners, idiosyncrasy* a weakness in bone, limb, or ligament, the re* Idvuyncriuy. — A peculiarity of constitution, in which a person is affected by certain agent*, which, if applied to a hundred other persons, would produce no effect; thus some persons cannot... | |
 | John Adams Tarbell - 1866 - 396 lapas
...A disease which does not depend on, and is in no way related to, any other complaint. Idiosyncrasy. A peculiarity of constitution in which a person is...affected by certain agents, which, if applied to a thousand other persons, would produce no effect. Intermittent. When applied to the pulse, means an... | |
 | John Adams Tarbell - 1866 - 392 lapas
...A disease which does not depend on, and is in no way related to, any other complaint. Idiosyncrasy. A peculiarity of constitution in which a person is...affected by certain agents, which, if applied to a thousand other persons, would produce no effect. Intermittent. When applied to the pulse, means an... | |
 | John A. Tarbell - 1996 - 390 lapas
...A disease which does not depend on, and is in no way related to, any other complaint. Idiosynerasy. A peculiarity of constitution in which a person is affected by certain agents, which, if applicd to a thousand other persons, would produce no effect. Intermittent. When applicd to the pulse,... | |
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When applied to the pulse, means an irregularity of pulsation ; the beating of the artery ceasing for two, three, or four seconds, and then returning to beat regularly for a short time, which regularity is succeeded by another interval... 