sizy
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In this situation, if he saw the patient within 12 or 24 hours of her seizure, he took away from 16 to 24 ounces of blood, which was always sizy.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
In more than two hundred patients, male and female, who were let blood by venesection, there were only six, whose blood could be termed sizy.
From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
The Pulse was strong and quick, and the Blood sizy; attended with other Appearances commonly observed in such Fevers.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro
I remember the old gentleman used to complain that his constitution was an unhappy one from birth, attended with 'flaccid solids, sizy and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits.'
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
To relieve the difficult respiration, about six ounces of blood were taken from one of them, which to my surprise was sizy, like inflamed blood: they had both palpitations or unequal pulsations of the heart.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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