SHOCK, NERVOUS
\ʃˈɒk], \ʃˈɒk], \ʃ_ˈɒ_k]\
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Vital Shock, Vital Depression, Nervous Depression, Fatal Sinking. Sudden or instantaneous depression of organic, nervous, or vital power, often with more or less perturbation of body and mind, passing either into reaction, or into fatal sinking, occasioned by the nature, severity or extent of injury, or by an overwhelming moral calamity.-Copland.
By Robley Dunglison
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tinctura quininae ammoniata
- A preparation made by dissolving quinin sulphate in alcohol [Br. Ph.].