narcotism
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Slowness, in marked degree, attends apoplexy, opium narcotism, and fracture of the skull compressing the brain.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Chronic encephalitis or meningitis may succeed the acute stage, or may be due to stable miasma, blood poison, narcotism, lead poisoning, etc.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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)
Yet the tincture is followed by a more rapid narcotism, but of shorter duration, and attended with more nerve disturbance at the onset.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
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
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