narcotism
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How does a patient breathe when moribund from simple exhaustion, and how does such respiration differ from the toil and struggle of asthma or the stertor of narcotism?
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This is the aesthetic variety of the malady, or rather, perhaps, it is only the old complaint robbed of all its pain, and lapped in waking dreams by the narcotism of an age of science.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
Natural sleep is one of these; the unconsciousness of narcotism or anesthesia is another.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
In undue somnolence, in nervous headache, in narcotism, also, at times when the exigencies of life require excessively prolonged wakefulness, caffein may be used as the most powerful agent known for producing wakefulness.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
The desire to sleep was intoxicating, delicious, irresistible; and with it ran delicious, restful thrills through all his limbs, the narcotism of the blood.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
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