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  • Nutricum mammas praesiccant, solo tactu podagram, Apoplexiam, Paralysin, et alios morbos, quos medicina curare non poterat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vidi, inquit, qui Melancholicos morbos gravissimos induxerunt: I have seen those that have caused melancholy in the most grievous manner, [1274] dried up women's paps, cured gout, palsy; this and apoplexy, falling sickness, which no physic could help, solu tactu, by touch alone.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In 1834, the physiologist, E.H. Weber, published a startling discovery in his De tactu.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • Quorundam corpore partes nascuntur ad aliqua mirabiles sicut Pyrrho regi pollex in dextero pede: cuius tactu lienosis medebatur.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Quorundam corpore partes nascuntur ad aliqua mirabiles sicut Pyrrho regi pollex in dextero pede: cuius tactu lienosis medebatur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • This is admitted by every one who worships trees, wells, and stones; and indeed it stands to reason, for it is but a branch of the well-known _'Sanctificatio ex loco, opere, tactu vel conditione. '

    The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Reading these elucubrations of Alfonso's, one feels that the saint has pondered long and lovingly upon themes like _an et quando peccata sint oscula_ or _de tactu et adspectu corporis; _ he writes with all the authority of an expert whose richly-varied experiences in the confessional have been amplified and irradiated by divine inspiration.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Itaque lenioribus paulisper utemur, ut quae in tumorem perturbationibus influentibus induruerunt, ad acrioris uim medicaminis recipiendum tactu blandiore mollescant.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • * [1322] Cantaverunt Hebraei cum vestigia eorum tactu flammæ rorantis humescerent.

    The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

  • Iste panis meus pretiosus super aquas literarias fæculentas præfidenter jactus, quasi Harpyiarum quarundam (scilicet bibliopolarum istorum facinorosorum supradictorum) tactu rancidus, intra perpaucos dies mihi domum rediit.

    The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

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