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This scheme is based on hypersensibility created by repetition of same dose in tuberculous subjects.

From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various

Whatever the motives and whatever the determining causes, hypersensibility is in any case a feeling of feelings which is not warranted by the present situation.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.

And he saw now that the years of his independent poverty had done much towards the development of common-sense, and the extinction of that hypersensibility which had so marred his otherwise fine nature.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton