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A very wise man wrote two books known as "China in Convulsions."
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In the article, "Convulsions," in the great "Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales," (published in 1812-22,) which article is from the pen of an able physiologist, Dr. Montègre, we find the following, in regard to the St. - Médard phenomena: -- "Carré de
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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Convulsions seized her at the foot of the ladder in the works.
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“The factious designing Man who was to have lighted up the flames of Mutiny and Sedition”—that is, Morris himself—“has undertaken a most arduous and perilous Business to save this Country from those Convulsions which her Negligence had hazarded.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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During his tenure as Financier Morris had used every available means to collect the debts of the war under the authority of the Congress, and in March 1783 he expressly called for assumption as the means by which “a Degree of Simplicity would be introduced into our Affairs and we might avoid the Horrors of intestine Convulsions.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“The factious designing Man who was to have lighted up the flames of Mutiny and Sedition”—that is, Morris himself—“has undertaken a most arduous and perilous Business to save this Country from those Convulsions which her Negligence had hazarded.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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During his tenure as Financier Morris had used every available means to collect the debts of the war under the authority of the Congress, and in March 1783 he expressly called for assumption as the means by which “a Degree of Simplicity would be introduced into our Affairs and we might avoid the Horrors of intestine Convulsions.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Karmic Convulsions Resized, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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Convulsions strong enough to break bonesDuring the '40s and' 50s, it was one of the only available methods for treating mental illness, so it was often overused.
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Convulsions, which attended her Fit after Fit, all the Hours she liv'd, which were not many.
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