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Definition of Ptyalisms
1. ptyalism [n] - See also: ptyalism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptyalisms
Literary usage of Ptyalisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"... PtyalismS There are ' statistics ' in the present paper, however, which we do
not remember to have encountered before ; for example : i If the practice ..."
2. Memoirs of Military Surgery, and Campaigns of the French Armies, on the by Dominique Jean Larrey (1814)
"... and in others violent spasms and ptyalisms, which it was difficult to check,
f Into this civil hospital, which did honour to the humanity of Belliard, ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1840)
"Several instances, however, have occurred to the writer, in which full ptyalisms
have been established, both from large doses of calomel or very minute ones ..."
4. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"... and never is it to be inferred that, because good results are observed from
the gentlest of ptyalisms, pushing the medicine will expedite a cure. ..."
5. On the Motions of the Earth and Heavenly Bodies: As Explainable by Electro by Peter Miller Cunningham (1834)
"... but the various excrementitious ones succeeding to it,—diarrhoeas, ulcers,
ptyalisms, and the like. I have previously shown that both electric and ..."
6. The American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica (1869)
"She- was seized during the night after taking the medicine with rigors, stiffness
of the neck, &c., the next day ptyalisms occurred, which continued ten ..."
7. Our Dogs and Their Diseases by George S. Heatley (1884)
"Thus severe and obstinate ptyalisms often occur, and yet there is no manifest
change in the state of the salivary glands. According to Swieten and Mead, ..."
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