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Example sentences for "convalescence"

Lexicographically close words:
conueyed; conuicted; conundrum; conundrums; conuocation; convalescent; convalescents; convalescing; convanient; convarse
  1. During the long convalescence following this illness the power of contemplation, which the Professor had up to then given to natural science, began to fix itself on life at large.

  2. The irritability and feebleness of convalescence makes claims upon her love of self-sacrifice, and her prodigality of tenderness as positive and yet more baneful.

  3. The amiability of convalescence is against it.

  4. This is the happy convalescence of the wholesome man.

  5. The convalescence he observes is for him, too, a pleasant thing.

  6. The mother needs the care of convalescence more than does the child.

  7. But poor food, poor housing, poor clothing, the lack of vacations, the insufficient convalescence from illness and childbirth are not blessings nor do they have anything but a bad effect, an effect traceable in the conditions we are studying.

  8. We have referred to the insufficient time for convalescence from childbirth.

  9. With convalescence comes another childhood, so to speak.

  10. But a long period of convalescence was before him; and the doctor warned them that convalescence has its very serious dangers, and that they must be very careful, and, above all, not irritate nor even excite him.

  11. Pain and stiffness of the joints often last long after convalescence has set in.

  12. In all forms convalescence is often gradual on account of the bodily and mental prostration with general soreness for several days.

  13. Convalescence is often long and slow, with stiffness and pain in the joints and muscles and great weakness.

  14. The convalescence is very gradual and the appetite is very great.

  15. For adults a good, nourishing diet when convalescence commences is necessary.

  16. In convalescence from fevers, which so frequently prove dangerous, the greatest care should be exercised to prevent from catching cold.

  17. Do not permit a child to wear or handle clothing worn by a person during sickness or convalescence from scarlet fever.

  18. Tonics are given during the convalescence and continued for some time.

  19. Favorable cases terminate at this time by crisis; the prostration is extreme; but convalescence is rapid.

  20. He also mentioned that a wheeled chair had been anonymously hired for his especial use, though as yet he was hardly far enough advanced towards convalescence to avail himself of the luxury.

  21. Hence the convalescence is actually more prolonged than it would otherwise be.

  22. If a fatal result is not occasioned, yet the prostration of body and mind after delivery is aggravated, and convalescence thereby retarded.

  23. Convalescence had been more rapid, and there had been fewer and less serious complications from abscesses and inflammatory boils.

  24. The patients have all been well and carefully fed on the milk and middle diet until convalescence was declared.

  25. In case no alcohol is used, the convalescence is much more rapid.

  26. She bore the winter better than had been expected, though without quitting her room at the vicarage, and in the month of April entered upon a convalescence which astonished all around her.

  27. All convalescence is a resurrection, a palingenesy of our youth--"and loves the earth and all that live thereon with a new heart.

  28. While convalescence requires weeks and months, the patient often gains greatly in flesh and feels made over anew, as in fact he has been to a great extent, through the destruction and repair of his organs.

  29. Her treatment of Andrea during the somewhat trying period of his convalescence was beyond all praise.

  30. She had about her that soft languor and delicious sense of freedom from pain which makes convalescence so sweet.

  31. Carry in her convalescence was no hypocrite, but she got the credit of it, and was all the better thought of.

  32. Her sense of convalescence and repose flew away like the wind.

  33. A previous attack of influenza is a common predisposing cause of this disease, which appears most frequently a few weeks after convalescence is established.

  34. It occurs more frequently in those animals which have made a rapid convalescence and are apparently perfectly well than it does in those which have made a slower recovery.

  35. After convalescence is established, nutritious feed of easy digestion and walking exercise are all that is needed, except perhaps a little Glauber's salt to prevent constipation.

  36. During the period of convalescence good nutritive feed should be allowed in a moderate quantity.

  37. The shoes should be replaced when convalescence sets in and the animal is ready to take exercise.

  38. Convalescence is usually tedious, and frequently permanent impairment of some organs remains.

  39. An animal is predisposed to pneumonia when debilitated by any constitutional disease, and especially during convalescence if exposed to any of the exciting causes.

  40. If the case is not progressing favorable in ten or twelve days after the beginning of the attack, convalescence is delayed by the fluid in the chest failing to be absorbed.

  41. It usually leaves the animal after convalescence perfectly healthy and as good as it was before, but sometimes leaves it a roarer or is followed by the development of deep-seated abscesses which may prove fatal.

  42. At the end of the fever, and when convalescence is established, alcohol in one-half pint doses and good ale in 1-pint doses may be given as stimulants.

  43. If recovery takes place, convalescence extends over a long period of time, during which incoordination of movement may persist.

  44. I have only been waiting for a termination of the case, either in convalescence or death, to enable me to give to the profession, through your valuable columns, a full and truthful history of this rare and curious case, replete with interest.

  45. I left them on the 27th, satisfied with the positive assurance that the doctor gave me, that there was no danger, though convalescence would be a slow and painful process.

  46. The doctor assures me that my convalescence is in sight, and that in a few days he will allow me to go into the open air.

  47. The period of Barbara's convalescence was a somewhat dull time for Paul, self-debarred as he was from quitting the vicinity of the castle.

  48. He was now so well advanced in convalescence that it was deemed a most desirable thing to take him down into his native air.

  49. She is altogether in a highly nervous, exalted condition, and feels that the first act of convalescence ought to be to reward his long waiting.

  50. Santley hoped to have his patient up and about in a short time, his youth and good constitution favouring rapid convalescence now that the acute stage of the disease was passed.

  51. A relapse was possible, and a great delay to convalescence certain.

  52. After a while the fever subsided, but Rachel was still very weak, and the doctor's prediction, that her convalescence would be very slow, soon proved itself true.

  53. She knew that Cary's malady was of its nature a protracted one, and that the convalescence must necessarily extend over many weeks.

  54. But then through what a long convalescence he, Pierre, had passed, buried as it were in that deserted house.

  55. I will add that we have no convalescence here; health is at once restored, full, entire.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convalescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.