Germany declared a blockage of Britain, Britain declared a blockage of Germany, and these Orders in Council had a far greater effect on American trade than the Berlin Decrees and the Orders in Council in the day of Napoleon.
An inclined railway is handicapped by the fact that it must occupy some of the surface to be uncovered, while liable to blockage by the debris of blasting operations.
In snakebite poisoning it is more likely to be due to passive engorgement of the capillary system and probably also to blockage of corpuscles in the finest capillary tubes.
The common seat of the blockage is in the colon, chiefly in the sigmoid flexure and in the rectum, but it may occur in the caecum.
This last technique is particularly good to get the water past a blockageof intestinal gas.
