"Morbifical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... those critical periods of life at which the central nervous system is relatively weak and unstable, can occasionally set going a non-inflammatory centric atrophy, which may localize itself in those nerves upon whose centres the morbific peripheral influence is perpetually pouring in. Even such influences as the psychical and emotional, be it remembered, must be considered peripheral."[19] The brain of Miss G——, whose case was ...
— Sex in Education - or, A Fair Chance for Girls • Edward H. Clarke
... his "Traite des Degenerescences Phisiques," ably discusses the degenerative and morbific influences and results of toxaemia, as well as he clearly defines their sources. The connection between toxaemia and mental affections has already been shown, and Prof. Hobart A. Hare, in his instructive and interesting prize essay on "La Pathogenie et la Therapeutique de l'Epilepsie ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... he has a great deal to say for it. Well, next to him, again, is Dr. Morbific, who has been all over the world to prove that there is no such thing as contagion; and has inoculated himself with plague, yellow fever, and every variety of pestilence, and is still alive to tell the story. I am very shy of him, too; for I look on him as a walking phial of wrath, corked full of ...
— Crotchet Castle • Thomas Love Peacock
... healing power of nature to an even greater degree than did Hippocrates. He claimed that disease was nothing more than an effort on the part of nature to restore the health of the patient by the elimination of the morbific matter. ...
— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann |
