incipiency

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If diagnosed during its incipiency, remedial measures such as are usually employed to treat sprains, are indicated and later the parts should be blistered.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

In order to make the theory of water erosion tenable it is assumed that the Colorado river started in its incipiency like any other river.

From Arizona Sketches by Munk, J. A. (Joseph Amasa)

Treatment.—No effective method is as yet known which will control this condition during its incipiency.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

The law provided penalty for the deed; the gospel rebuked the evil passion in its incipiency.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

Yet Cheltenham was not without generous partizans, but, as is common in the incipiency of opinion, they were at that time among that class who had fewest means.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob