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" The two new bodies were found to be so much alike in size and appearance, and in their orbits, that Olbers suggested both were but fragments of some larger body which had been shattered by some great convulsion of nature.
From like causes we argue like effects, and therefore we may anticipate a great convulsion in the political world during the year 1917 and thereafter.
Hemlock has a paralyzing action on the nerves of motion, which is directly the reverse of the stimulating action of Strychnia; and is thus of use in cases of convulsion and spasm.
The convulsion caused by Strychnia is tonic; that by Hydrocyanic acid, asthenic.
The individual we are studying is a sick person; this is shown by ptosis (drooping eye-lid), the recurrent periods of agitation, the epileptic convulsion in the night detected by the night nurse.
After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature.
' Uttering these words, the good lady pointed, distractedly, to the cupboard, and underwent a convulsion from internal spasms.
Grimwig, who had been affecting to dip into a large book that lay on the table, upset it with a great crash, and falling back in his chair, discharged from his features every expression but one of unmitigated wonder, and indulged in a prolonged and vacant stare; then, as if ashamed of having betrayed so much emotion, he jerked himself, as it were, by a convulsion into his former attitude, and looking out straight before him emitted a long deep whistle, which seemed, at last, not to be discharged on empty air, but to die away in the innermost recesses of his stomach.
There was a sudden jerk, a terrific convulsion of the limbs; and there he hung, with the open knife clenched in his stiffening hand.
It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.
Each period of tranquillity, however, was believed to have been, sooner or later, put an end to by a sudden and awful convulsion of nature, ushering in a brief and paroxysmal period, in which the great physical forces were unchained and permitted to spring into a portentous activity.
The general form, with a convulsion that usually involves all the muscles of the body simultaneously.
The convulsion may last several minutes and is followed by a deep sleep for some hours.
The convulsion continues from one to three minutes, and is followed by a deep, sighing inspiration, the subject then sinks into a deep sleep, which continues for half an hour or longer.
When it reaches the brain, the subject becomes [pg 648]unconscious, falls, and the convulsion commences.
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