sizy
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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 Goodwin, Maud Wilder
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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 Monro, Donald
M. M. Hepatic inflammation is very liable to terminate in suppuration, and the patient is destroyed by the continuance of a fever with sizy blood, but without night-sweats, or diarrhœa, as in other unopened abscesses.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The pain is less than in enteritis, and the disease of longer continuance, with harder pulse, and the blood equally sizy.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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