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

Stanton as Attorney-General at the close of Buchanan's administration had done effective work in foiling the plans of the Confederacy, and he believed in forceful measures to put down the rebellion in its incipiency.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

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)

He traces her malady from its incipiency, through the successive disquieting manifestations of hysteria, melancholia, and fury, broken by periods of partial and even complete mental lucidity.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus

I want to talk to you directly about our mission work, giving a historical sketch of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions from its incipiency to the present time.

From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)