"Debilitate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cured by merely diminishing the excitement of the part, while the excitement of the whole system remains: if we apply leeches to the throat in this state, to diminish the quantity of blood, we only debilitate the vessels, while fresh quantities of blood are poured into them from the too full vessels of the body; even if we could thus remove the sthenic diathesis of the part, we should go but a little way towards removing the inflammatory disease, ...
— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia - Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease • Thomas Garnett |
