ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD IMPOSTUME
From Old French empostume, from Late Latin apostēma, from Greek, literally: separation (of pus), from aphistanai to remove, from histanai to stand.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPOSTUME»
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impostume in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
impostume and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Milton and Maternal Mortality
It is highly likely that whoever did the lancing would also have been equipped to
perform such an extraction, which could often lead to laceration of the uterus and
severe infection and/or bleeding, and is at least as likely as the impostume and ...
2
Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680
Secondly this can also be caused through an impostume [abscess] of the throte;
the which breaking falleth into the breast and there annoyeth the same. Thirdly if
any impostume in the breast which after the Pleurisie, inflammation of the Lights ...
3
The Ladies' Dispensatory
Carey David Balaban, Jonathan Erlen, Richard Siderits. And yf the impostume do
come by coler the impost ume is named Herisipula. And if yos impostume do
come of melacoly, or coler adusted, than the imposlume is named Cancri or
sclims.
Carey David Balaban, Jonathan Erlen, Richard Siderits, 2003
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A general index to the Philosophical transactions [of the ...
Reflections on the communication df motion by impact and gravity - ' Milner
Impostume. Letter concerning the bones of a hu man fœtns voided through an
impostume in the groin - - Skippin —— Account of an extraordinary
impostumation of the ...
Paul Henry Maty, Royal society, 1787
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The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part ...
... kills the Patient. If after the Impostume is; broken, and the Purulent Spittle
beginning to come away with ease, and the strength holding firm; R ther* there
be room for any method of Cure,: The Primary Of the Impost ume of the Langs, iit.
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Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance
Five, I take it: I can see greatness big with an impostume, yet, towering in the air
like a falcon, the small birds dare not peep for him. I can hear a man swear 'I am
thy eternal slave, and will serve thee', when, if opportunity were offered, for price
...
Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders, Sophie Tomlinson, 2006
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The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey
The signs by which the Chirurgeons may presage that an Impostume may be
terminated by resolving, are the remission or slacking of the swelling, pain,
pulsation, tension, heat, and all other accidents, and the unaccustomed liveliness
and ...
Ambroise Paré, Adriaan van den Spiegel, John Clarke ((Londres)), 1649
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A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry ...
... viz. that it was præsti- giousty injected by the Dæmon, while the Impostume
was opening, not through the sound or whole Skin before the Impostume was
made or opened : or that it was some gathering together in the Impostume,
resembling ...
Henry More, René Descartes, 1712
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The Chambers Dictionary
[Fr impaste. from Ital imposta. from L imptlnere. imposition] Imposter. See
Impostor. imposthume. See impostume. impostor or impostor im-pos'ur. n
someone who assumes a false character or impersonates another. — n
imposture (-ch»r) an ...
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The Economics of Population
... themselves 11 10 13 14 9 14 15 9 14 16 24 18 Head-ach 1 11 2 2 6 6 5 3 4 5
Jaundice 57 35 39 49 41 43 57 71 61 41 46 77 Jaw-fain 1 1 3 2 2 3 1 Impostume
75 61 65 59 80 105 79 90 92 122 80 134 Itch 1 Killed by several Accidents 27 57
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPOSTUME»
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impostume is used in the context of the following news items.
Khamenei: Zionist regime is a cancer
11. Khamenei, when I see you. Heinz Fritschi, , Switzerland, (02.03.12). 12. Khamenei is an impostume. Ernst Graf, , Herrliberg, (02.03.12). 13. «Ynetnews, Feb 12»
Classless, by Carl Neville
Carl Neville (The Impostume blogger) analyses with considerable panache commercial UK cinema over the past twenty years, proposing its ... «libcom.org, May 11»
