"Afflux" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to stimulate the vasomotor system, both central and peripheral; to give tone to the coats of vessels, both by direct and indirect electric influence; through counter-irritation to relieve internal congestions, by causing an afflux of blood to the skin. These objects are best attained by means of the galvanic current, which should be employed of sufficient intensity to produce a rubefacient effect. The faradic current acts in the same direction, ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig
... of a sudden afflux of blood to the head; and although he was blooded by Dr. Rush several times, never was so far bettered as to speak to me. Only once, as I am told is not rare, he so revived when in the very article of death as to look about and say, thinking my hand in his was my ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell
... through the townsmen who had gathered, and whose numbers were swelled every moment by the afflux of aproned grocers, and potboys, and 'prentices, and others from the streets, I saw Cyrus laid on his back by the parapet, white and still, his father pacing heavily up and down, and his friend Captain ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... organs are the containing sheaths of some fluid or other as yet inappreciable. I hold this for proved. Well! there are a certain number of organs which are vitiated by their lack, by their constitution, others which are vitiated by an excess of afflux. People, who, like Cuvier and Voltaire, have exercised their organs early, have rendered them so powerful that no excess can affect them; whereas those who keep to certain portions of the ideal encephalos, ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... gymnotus, and the small space occupied by its muscular system! This contrast reminds the observer, that three functions of animal life, which appear in other respects sufficiently distinct—the functions of the brain, those of the electrical organ, and those of the muscles, all require the afflux and concourse of arterial ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt
... or from the objects wherein at a distance it perceives good or evil? And would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still where chance has once placed it, and there receive the afflux of colder or warmer, clean or foul water, as it happens to come ...
— An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. - MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4) • John Locke |
