prostration
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Prostration, or loss of muscular strength, is present from the beginning in a large number of cases of typhoid fever, but is generally not so marked in the early stages as in typhus fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In severe forms of the disease the "Rest Cure" and feeding described under Nervous Prostration should be used.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
Prostration practised at the court of Marocco, 281.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
XXX Here is suggested the ninth stage: Prostration.
From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa
Prostration may be great, according to the violence and duration of the attack.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
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