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n. - A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain.

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  • There is a kind of deliquium of the spirits, called swooning away, that may befall believers, which suspends all acts of life, when yet the man is not dead.
  • In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and deliquium come on, it is bad.
  • From the rupture of an internal abscess, prostration of strength, vomiting, and deliquium animi result.
  • Excision, either of articular bones or of pieces of bones, when not high up in the body, but about the foot or the hand, is generally followed by recovery, unless the patient...
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