From the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., to be used by Dr. Chanutin in connection with his project on Fat Metabolism in the "nephritic" rat. From Wordnik.com. [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference
Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections are favorable. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea. From Wordnik.com. [Off to the Races] Reference
Whenever the aforementioned symptoms occur in nephritic diseases, and along with them acute pains about the muscles of the back, provided these be seated about the external parts, you may expect that there will be an abscess; but if the pains be rather about the internal parts, you may also rather expect that the abscess will be seated internally. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
The root is advised in jaundice and nephritic diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Do you suffer from any nephritic irritation or from stricture?. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
In great repute as a remedy in calculus and in nephritic diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Both the nephritic and phthisical groups need further intensive study. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
My medical attendant says that it is irregular gout, with nephritic symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
The boy has nephritic syndrome, he passes protein out of his kidneys, causing him to swell. From Wordnik.com. [Baltiblogs] Reference
Stearns, in the Am. Herbal, 136, refers to its use in jaundice, nephritic disorders, and in hemorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The leaves act as a powerful diuretic, and are employed in calculous, nephritic diseases, diabetes, gout, and small-pox. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
If an endolaryngeal operation is needed by a nephritic, preparatory treatment may prevent laryngeal edema or other complications. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
According to Laennec, the decoction of the root possesses the property of action against poison, and is useful in nephritic diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
It is very emollient, and is employed in catarrhal, dysenteric, and nephritic diseases, and wherever a mucilaginous fluid is required. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Landanabileo has been quoted as using raw coffee infusion in hepatic and nephritic diseases, venal and hepatic colics, and in diabetes. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Online > Daily Readings] Reference
As if he contrived to touch him in the tenderest part, cleaving his reins asunder with acute pains; perhaps they were nephritic pains, those of the stone, which lie in the region of the kidneys. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
According to Ziehen, most of these nephritic psychoses run the course of what he calls hallucinatory paranoia (it may be remembered that Ziehen counts among paranoias a number of acute diseases and even so-called Meynert's amentia). From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
On his return he read or wrote till the night was far spent, or rather till the morning was come again, sipping at intervals spirits diluted with water, as medicine to counteract some nephritic disorder to which he considered himself liable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Lord Byron]
It was not until after the imprisonment of Diderot that the heat of blood, brought on by my journeys to Vincennes during the terrible heat of that summer, gave me a violent nephritic colic, since which I have never recovered my primitive good state of health. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of J J Rousseau]
Bridge River and Fraser jade is hard to recognize for the uninitiated - the rocks and boulders tend to be a greyish colour at first glance, not interesting-looking at all; it's only by wetting and especially by cutting that the dark black-green of nephritic jade is revealed. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese in Vancouver] Reference
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