Sentences with phrase «other afflictions which»

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Letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush from Thomas Jefferson Washington, April 21, 1803 Dear Sir, — In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

Imagine if genetic diseases could be removed from the very biological code of our species — a future in which the likes of hemophilia, cystic fibrosis or dozens of other afflictions are simply edited out of human embryos.

For example, a book of «recipes» for all facets of life, written by Dr. A.W. Chase, MD in 1866, lists ten formulations of salve, eight of which contain tallow, in addition to other natural ingredients.17 This same medical doctor quotes the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of his day on using pure tallow for a «very common and very painful affliction,» an ingrown toenail.

Emetophilia is a sexual fetish for seeing other people vomit, and if this is an affliction to which you ascribe, you could do a lot worse than pick up a ticket for this restoration screening of Frederick Wiseman's 1970 feature, Hospital.

When sitting on a modern toilet as we do a chair, our colon is essentially «kinked» (as designed, so we don't relieve ourselves accidentally), which can lead to difficulties with constipation, hemorrhoids, and other afflictions to our nether regions.

Morofsky made conscious breathing the centerpiece of Wellativity, which is what he calls his personal method for helping people overcome afflictions such as obesity, smoking, lethargy, eating disorders and any other behavior that inhibits wellness.