Probably it was locomotor ataxy, which is the special scourge of the imaginative man. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Magic Door] Reference
The explosive rush and momentum of these deafferented extensor reflexes recall the ataxy of tabes. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Its onset is an ataxy; and its culmination a paralysis. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
It is closely allied to, if not identical with, locomotor ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
“Ah — how are you?” he asked musically, peering down on the great frame of the miner, ruined by locomotor ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
In fact for a lamentably depraved condition of all the bodily health, such as characterises advanced locomotor ataxy, and allied spinal degradations leading to general physical failure. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The total finishing and printing, not only of the body of the discourse, but also the preface, before occasion was given to those thoughts which I now desire to communicate, is the rise of this ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
For instance, there is a close resemblance between pseudo-and true locomotor ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
No one who has never seen an automobile during a spasm of motor ataxy can have any idea of what I suffered. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Wenuses] Reference
A few years ago we had under our care a patient in the last stages of locomotor ataxy, who for years had been suffering the tortures of the damned. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
But on April 30, 1883, Manet died, exhausted by his work and struggles, of locomotor ataxy, after having vainly undergone the amputation of a foot to avoid gangrene. From Wordnik.com. [The French Impressionists (1860-1900)] Reference
Mercury, iodine and all other alteratives, by suppression of external elimination, create internal chronic diseases of the most dreadful types, such as locomotor ataxy, paresis, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
These stages of acute inflammation are followed in a few years by sclerosis (hardening) of nerve matter and blood vessels, resulting in paresis, locomotor ataxy or paralysis agitans. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
The Ts'u name for "Annals," or history, was quite different from the terms used in Tsin and Lu, respectively; and the Ts'u word for a peculiar form of lameness, or locomotor ataxy, is said to differ from the expressions used in either Wei and. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
It is strange, therefore, that a school of medicine which has not succeeded, with all its vaunted knowledge and wisdom, to cure simple constipation, flatly denies that natural methods can cure cancer, epilepsy, locomotor ataxy and other so-called incurable diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
In 1860 he had contracted a spinal affection, the result of over-exertion, and this had degenerated, some years later, into locomotor ataxy; he lost by degrees the use of one of his legs and used a crutch; there was afterwards an improvement, but he could never walk without a stick. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research] Reference
It takes the mercurial poison from five to ten and even fifteen years before it works its way into the brain and spinal cord, and there causes its characteristic degeneration and destruction of brain and. nerve tissues which manifest outwardly as locomotor ataxy, paralysis agitans, paresis, apoplexy, hemiplegia, epilepsy. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
Cure school apply them, can and do cure so-called incurable diseases, such as tuberculosis, cancer, locomotor ataxy, epilepsy, eczema, neurasthenia, insanity and the worst forms of chronic dyspepsia and constipation, always providing that the patient possesses sufficient vitality to react to the treatment and that the destruction of vital parts and organs has not advanced too far. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
Asyntactic; irregular; pertaining to ataxy. adj. - of or pertaining to freedom from anxiety or emotional disturbance; calm and imperturbable. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
"You know this man has locomotor ataxy and that woman is an epileptic: you certainly do not expect to cure them," or, "Doctor, don't you think it injures the institution to have that dreadful-looking person around?. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
"Hundreds of cases of well-developed locomotor ataxy, paresis, and other so-called secondary and tertiary diseases of the brain and the nervous system, of bony and fleshy tissues, and of vital organs have been cured by our natural methods of treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
In spite of the racing-track surface, the crazy car bumped and jolted; the sides of the rickety bonnet clashed like cymbals; every valve wheezed and squealed; every nut seemed to have got loose and terrifically clattered; rattling noises, grunting noises, screeching noises escaped from every part; it creaked and clanked like an over-insured tramp-steamer in a typhoon; it lurched as though afflicted with loco-motor ataxy; and noisome vapours belched forth from the open exhaust-pipe as though the car were a Tophet on wheels. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
FLORRY: (NODS) Locomotor ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
100 rabbits you could discover a way to the extirpation of leprosy, or consumption, or locomotor ataxy, or of suicidal melancholia among human beings, dare you refuse to inflict that pain?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
It had locomotor ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
He suffered from locomotor ataxy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Agaric, Fly (locomotor ataxy). From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Perhaps it was locomotor ataxy that he had. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Fiction] Reference
A tall, 313 ataxia, 223 ataxy, 223 ate, suf. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
Here, then, comes in the deformity, the obliquity, the ataxy, of any thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
We hear all the while of sensory processes, sensory contents, sensory centres, sensory attention, etc.; and, on the other hand, of motor processes, motor centres, motor ataxy, motor attention, motor consciousness, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
But if already, before this point, on my arrival at Rivebelle, I had flung irretrievably away from me those crutches of reason and self-control which help our infirmity to follow the right road, if I now found myself the victim of a sort of moral ataxy, the alcohol that I had drunk, by unduly straining my nerves, gave to the minutes as they came a quality, a charm which did not have the result of leaving me more ready, or indeed more resolute to inhibit them, prevent their coming; for while it made me prefer them a thousand times to anything else in my life, my exaltation made me isolate them from everything else; I was confined to the present, as heroes are or drunkards; eclipsed for the moment, my past no longer projected before me that shadow of itself which we call our future; placing the goal of my life no longer in the realisation of the dreams of that past, but in the felicity of the present moment, I could see nothing now of what lay beyond it. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
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