oblivium

Example Sentences

• "Perſley, Petroſelinum, or Apium hortenſe; being hot and dry, opens Obſtructions, is very Diuretic, yet nouriſhing, edulcorated in ſhifted warm Water (the Roots eſpecially) but of leſs Vertue than Alexanders; nor ſo convenient in our crude Sallet, as when decocted on a Medicinal Account. Some few tops of the tender Leaves may yet be admitted; tho’ it was of old, we read, never brought to the Table at all, as ſacred to Oblivium and the Defunct."
• "To this purpose, calling to mind how their dissenting in matter of worship and Church government, from that which was used and established in the rest of our dominions, was the chief, if not the only, cause of the late disorders amongst them; we have thought it the best way, for preventing the like in time to come, as to comprehend them in the common Act of Oblivium; […]"
• "Best friend of frail humanity, and like all other friends best estimated in its loss. Who has not known the value of oblivium whene’er some newly past or close impending evil has flung its giant shadows athwart the morning twilight of the soul?"
• "Sometimes the attack consists in a momentary loss of consciousness, “oblivium quoddam et delirium adeo breve, ut fere ad se redeat, priusquam ab adstantibus animadvertatur.” — Heberdeni Comment., cap. 33. Sometimes this oblivium precedes the attack of convulsion. […] Does such a spasmodic action take place in the muscles of the neck unnoticed, compress the veins which convey the blood from the brain, and induce the oblivium to which I have just alluded?"
• "There is no order, no degree, in which the muscles of the neck may not act, and in which the veins of the neck may not be compressed; there is no form of cerebral and spinal paroxysmal derangement—from a momentary oblivium or delirium to coma or mania—from the slightest spasmodic or paralytic affection to epilepsy or hemiplegia—which may not take place as consequences of that compression. […] Let us imagine a similar condition of the internal jugular; there will be a state of blushing, in other words, of congestion of the cerebrum, with oblivium, stupor, or even apoplexy. […] This statement may be expanded into the different modes and forms of diseases of the nervous system, in their cerebral and spinal portions. Hence we have stupor, oblivium, cerebral epilepsy, vertigo, headach, delirium, flashes of light, muscæ, flocci, dimness, amaurosis in every degree, tinnitus, and other noises, dulness, deafness; […]"
• "These premonitory symptoms are, dull pain in the head, with a sense of weight or heaviness, the pain may be located at any part, but mostly around the occipital region; […] slight faintness or vertigo, with paleness of countenance, and momentary disturbed intellect or oblivium; […]"