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Example sentences for "severe attack"

  • Soon after King Eng's return her father was prostrated with a severe attack of grippe, which in his already weakened state, made his condition almost hopeless.

  • During the winter of 1906 she had a severe attack of illness which she herself diagnosed as appendicitis, and for which she directed treatment which brought her relief.

  • It was some time before he would admit that he was ill; but he was finally forced to succumb to a severe attack of pneumonia, which ended his life within a very few days.

  • Boston, and during the winter had a severe attack of bleeding at the lungs, and other dangerous symptoms.

  • Not long afterward I felt a severe attack of suffering.

  • Since I have been in Science I have overcome a case of ulcerated tooth in one night through the reading of Science and Health; also a severe attack of grip in thirty-six hours by obeying the Scripture saying, "Physician, heal thyself.

  • He seems himself to have suffered from a severe attack of typhus fever which raged epidemically in Vienna in 1798.

  • In 1798 he suffered from a severe attack of typhus fever, which at the time was epidemic in Vienna, and some of his biographers report his death in this year as a consequence of it.

  • But when she saw Sister Barrett having such a severe attack of erysipelas, she became a little alarmed and used something as a preventive, not realizing that it would hinder her faith.

  • Soon after my return I took a severe attack of pneumonia.

  • In nine days she had a severe attack of erysipelas.

  • I had taken a severe attack of the grip and was suffering greatly.

  • By the time they reached the mouth of the Zambesi, Livingstone was suffering from a severe attack of diarrhoea.

  • Braxton Hicks states that his son, attending school at Reading, was seized with a severe attack of pyrexia, accompanied on the second day by delirium and the occurrence of a rash like scarlet fever over the entire surface.

  • If scarlatina occur during a severe attack of entero-colitis attended by purging, the defluxion from the external surface may be such that no efflorescence appears.

  • The severity of the disease does not always depend on the predominance of one of these three forms, for any of them may accompany a mild or a severe attack.

  • Both were gray-haired old men and the latter was at the time very weak, and suffering from a severe attack of asthma.

  • A severe attack of typhoid fever necessitated my leaving the islands before I could carry out this plan, but upon my return with the first Philippine Commission in 1899 I remembered SeƱor Sanchez's story.

  • Castor oil is required for a severe attack.

  • In July last, I had a severe attack of diarrhoea unattended with much fever, which I attributed to drinking too much water impregnated with earthy salts, and to which I had been unaccustomed.

  • I had only taken animal food about two months after the usual custom, before I had a severe attack, and only escaped an inflammatory fever by the most rigid antiphlogistic treatment.

  • About this time I had a severe attack of measles, which came very near carrying me off.

  • Cross-examined by Mr. GROVE: I did not see the patient during a severe attack.

  • Bamford on the previous day, and that he was then suffering from a severe attack of English cholera.

  • The patient was not at all insensible during the time I saw her, and she was able to swallow, but I did not see her during a severe attack.

  • A young French widow was treated by me for a severe attack of jaundice, from which she made a good recovery.

  • He said that slight difficulty of breathing with hacking cough used to trouble him every night, besides a cold would be followed by a severe attack of asthma, so its periodicity of recurrence was irregular.

  • One Saturday she came with a severe attack, locating the pain with her right hand above and to the left of the stomach.

  • I suffered from a severe attack of ophthalmia, and was obliged in consequence to proceed to Aden for a few weeks.

  • He had suffered from a severe attack of dysentery during our stay at Kourata.

  • The lady suffered from a severe attack of nervous disorder, which terminated in suicidal mania.

  • The intelligence was communicated to the lady, she became dreadfully excited, and a severe attack of nervous fever followed.

  • None of the ordinary effects of wine were produced at the time, but a few days afterwards he was seized with a severe attack of indigestion, a malady by which he had never been previously affected.

  • The early summer had been designed for a tour through Central America and Venezuela, but a severe attack of illness prostrated Gottschalk, and he was not able to sail before August for his new field of musical conquest.

  • Indefatigable labor, in rehearsing his musicians and organizing the almost innumerable details of such an affair, acted on a frame which had not yet recovered its strength from a severe attack of illness.

  • His delicate constitution succumbed under hard work, and for a while a severe attack of typhoid fever interrupted his studies.

  • Wasp,' and belonging to the Royal Naval Brigade, had a severe attack of cholera, and was cured in a few hours by Mrs. Seacole.


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