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Definition of Affusions
1. affusion [n] - See also: affusion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affusions
Literary usage of Affusions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cholera: its origin, history, causation, symptoms, lesions, prevention, and by Alfred Stillé (1885)
"As early as 1832 a marked advantage was ascribed to the use of cold affusions in
cholera.1 One of the physicians of the cholera hospital of Berlin said: ..."
2. The History, diagnosis, and treatment of the fevers of the United States by Elisha Bartlett (1856)
"affusions and Ablution^. The agreement of opinion and practice in regard to the
external use of water at diffent temperatures, according to ..."
3. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Hugh L Hodge, Franklin Bache, Charles D Meigs, Benjamin Hornor Coates, R La Roche (1828)
"... of ike Curative Effects of copious and long-continued affusions nf Cold Water
in External Inflammation}. In a letter from LS TILLET, MD, of Lancaster, ..."
4. The History of Infant Baptism: Together with Mr. Gale's Reflections, and Dr by William Wall, John Gale (1844)
"St. Cyprian's plea for aspersion very trifling— All who were baptized in the
apostles' times were baptized by immersion—The clinical affusions do not appear ..."
5. The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions: Including by James Ranald Martin (1856)
"THE WARM BATH—TEPID AND COLD affusions- COLD DRINKS. — Robert Jackson began his
treatment of the congestive fevers of the West Indies by a warm bath and ..."
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