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And that soft reply—how covered with kisses, how worn in that pocket of the coat in which it can feel the beatings of the precordial region!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

This discomfort is mainly referred to the precordial region.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It is characterized by high fever, precordial pain, attacks of syncope, and a systolic murmur.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Reflex action should be excited, the peripheral nervous system stimulated in order to contract the heart and the respiratory muscles, and the precordial region cauterized.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

After this occurs precordial anxiety, and finally the psychosis proper consisting of three stages: 1.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.