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Definition of Acridities
1. acridity [n] - See also: acridity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acridities
Literary usage of Acridities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lesser writings of Samuel Hahnemann by Samuel Hahnemann (1852)
"No one will question his right any more than they will that of the other leaders
of sects, who perceived in diseases nothing but acridities in the blood ..."
2. The History of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1830)
"Sylvius first introduced the word acridity to denote a predominance of the chemical
elements of the humours, and he looked upon these acridities as the ..."
3. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"... and formic acid has been shown to be a general one, and the author proposes
to call the class of bodies thus prepared by the general name "acridities. ..."
4. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"... sometimes of morbid matters and acridities, hence it taps off the life's blood
and exerts itself either to clear away the imaginary morbid matter, ..."
5. The Natural history of digestion by Alexander Lockhart Gillespie (1904)
"Among other tenets, he held that the acridities of the body fluids played an
important part in the functions of life. There were acid, saline, oleaginous, ..."
6. History of Homoeopathy: Its Origin, Its Conflicts, with an Appendix on the by Wilhelm Ameke, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1885)
"... and bowels :—the method of treatment which aims its medicinal darts at imaginary
acridities and impurities in the blood and other humours, at cancerous, ..."
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