Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Brown: The Mercury Mischief: As Obama Warns of Hazards, The FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings] Reference
"Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia. From Wordnik.com. [THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings] Reference
He was not really tormented except by a cerebral erethism. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
At the same time they consider that, while erethism is less, sexuality is greater than in men. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference
The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
More than ever did he seek women, urged by a nervous erethism which he could not explain or control. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
The Professor, already exacerbated by the study of the humanities, was in a state of acute erethism. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Wenuses] Reference
Hers was not the plain appealing of Olive's Greek statue-like beauty; it was rather the hectic erethism of painters and sculptors in a period preceding the apogee of an art. From Wordnik.com. [Muslin] Reference
The letters written in this "flame" relationship are full of passion; they appear to be often written during periods of physical excitement and psychic erethism, and may be considered, Obici and. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
Nervous system toxicity can cause erethism ( "mad hatter syndrome" as mentioned above) with symptoms of shyness; laughing, crying, and dramatic mood swings for no apparent reason; nervousness, inability to concentrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
In this case human ingenuity would merely be seeking to supply an organ which nature has ceased to furnish, although it is still in some cases needed, especially among peoples whose aptitude for erethism has remained at, or fallen to, a subhuman level. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference
These include epidemics such as the Minimata Bay exposures in Japan, acrodynia or pink disease in children from calomel (HgCl) used in teething powder, "mad hatter syndrome" or erethism, and methylmercury fungicide grain seed exposures in Iraq and Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
(mercury also being the cause of 18th-19th c. mad hatter's disease, or erethism, as mercury was used in the preparation of felt). From Wordnik.com. [Word Wenches] Reference
The unusual development of the genital organs reacts upon the entire system, and produces a state of peculiar activity and excitability, known as the condition of 'erethism.'". From Wordnik.com. [Plain Facts for Old and Young] Reference
No. 82, 1898) that "irritation and congestion of the nasal mucous membrane precede, or are the excitants of, the olfactory impression that forms the connecting link between the sense of smell and erethism of the reproductive organs exhibited in the lower animals.". From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
The unusual development of the genital organs reacts upon the entire system, and produces a state of peculiar activity and excitability, known as the condition of ` erethism. '". From Wordnik.com. [Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.] Reference
erethism. ". From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Wenuses] Reference
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