supervene
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If the feeding of a liberal allowance of grain be suddenly commenced, fatal diarrhœa will often supervene.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
According to Murchison, paralysis does not supervene until several weeks after the commencement of convalescence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
That the young woman had expensive tastes he did not suppose, and he had great and not ungrounded confidence in his own power of repression of any taste not to his mind, should any supervene.
From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough
Swoonings which supervene in Diseases, accompanied with great Evacuations, are cured like those which are owing to Weakness; and Endeavours should be used to restrain or moderate the Evacuations.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
In cases where grave nervous symptoms supervene and the typhoid condition is developed the facies assumes all the characteristics of that state.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Mr Blackwell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that animals should be "stunned at the time of death", which would render them "insensible to pain until death supervenes".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2014
From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.
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For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.
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Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.
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When insanity supervenes on epilepsy, of where the latter disease is induced by insanity, a cure is very seldom effected: from my own observation, I do not recollect a single case of recovery.
From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
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After awhile the anger appeared to subside, silence supervened, and Mrs. Dundyke watched through the live-long night.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
In the table which I have given respecting question 2, the reader will recollect that I stated that puerperal fever supervened in five cows immediately after parturition.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
During all the illness which supervened on the paralysis, Blucher could seldom, if ever, be prevailed on to leave his master’s bedside, and every one who approached the patient was eyed with extreme suspicion.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables
There had been a slight hæmorrhage, but a sudden collapse had supervened.
From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by M. Beer
Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017
Even Astræa brightened, and grew better; her fretfulness was disappearing, and a tone of contentment and cheerfulness supervening upon it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
And he began a commentary on fourteen of the above-mentioned moral odes, in the vulgar tongue, which, through his death supervening, is only completed for three....
From Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler
The incessant drenching from sea and sky to which they had been so long subjected, chilled their slackened circulation to such a degree, that death from torpor seemed rapidly supervening.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
It struck Lafcadio, and in consequence of the inflammation supervening he lost the sight of an eye.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard