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- noun Plural form of
hypochondry .
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Examples
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[4410] Cupping-glasses applied to the hypochondries, without scarification, do wonderfully resolve wind.
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Cataplasms, salves, or poultices made of green herbs, pounded, or sod in water till they be soft, which are applied to the hypochondries, and other parts, when the body is empty.
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But the chiefest symptom to discern this species, as I have said, is this, that there be no notable signs in the stomach, hypochondries, or elsewhere, digna, as [2627]
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[2680] Cold sweat from vapours arising from the hypochondries, which pitch upon the skin; leanness for want of good nourishment.
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But this is not always true, for blood and hypochondries both are often affected even in head-melancholy.
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If from the hypochondries, a rumbling inflation, concoction is hindered, often belching, &c.
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If from the mirach, a swelling and wind in the hypochondries, a loathing, and appetite to vomit, pulling upward.
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Preparatives and alteratives may be used as before, saving that there must be respect had as well to the liver, spleen, stomach, hypochondries, as to the heart and brain.
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Wind is common to all three species, and is not excluded, only that of the hypochondries is [2628] more windy than the rest, saith Hollerius.
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