What is "abnormal condition"

Usage examples of "abnormal condition".

The effects of a milk and vegetable diet, of gluten bread in diabetes, of cod-liver oil in phthisis, even of such audacious innovations as the water-cure and the grape-cure, are only hints of what will be accomplished when we have learned to discover what organic elements are deficient or in excess in a case of chronic disease, and the best way of correcting the abnormal condition, just as an agriculturist ascertains the wants of his crops and modifies the composition of his soil.

It seemed as though they thought that every tenant and labourer on the estate, and every tenant a labourer's wife, would be in an abnormal condition and unfit for the duties of life, till they should have seen Everett as heir to the property.

There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to _prove_, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will, can so impress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of _death_, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other normal condition within our cognizance .

It might not have been in the vault but in her abnormal condition she thought it was.

When this balance is disturbed an abnormal condition leading to disease follows.

Finally, I was almost ready to persuade myself that this experience had been part of some evil dream, and that my abnormal condition might have conjured up an hallucination.

Her brother, too, laughed at her without the slightest idea of the pain he occasioned, or the remotest feeling of curiosity as to what the inward and consistent causes of the outward abnormal condition might be.

I was at the height of normality, which is a very abnormal condition.

Insofar as the activity of a soldier encased in all these garments would be cut to a minimum, it can only be assumed that all these coverings represent body-shielding against some abnormal condition.

One afternoon I pointed to a patient sitting in chair number five, and Diane began to describe an abnormal condition of the pituitary gland.

But the twin functions do not fuse, because this is an abnormal condition the body isn't prepared for.