Lexicographical Neighbors of Constringes
Literary usage of Constringes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1871)
"Tho alum solution constringes the parts, and sometimes causes severe cramp-like
pains in the belly. Such injections rarely fail, if properly applied. ..."
2. The Aristocracy of Health: A Study of Physical Culture, Our Favorite Poisons by Mary Foote Henderson (1906)
"The alcohols . . . relax the vessels; nicotine constringes; ... opium relaxes
then constringes; ether relaxes; chloral hydrate first ..."
3. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1900)
"Of the Difference of Men in different Climates Cold air constringes the extremities
of the external fibres of the body -fl this increases their elasticity, ..."
4. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1900)
"... while the cold air constringes the fibres, and obstructs the perspiration,
inflammatory disorders must ensue. Accordingly, the people are then subject ..."
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