Vapor

“The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay ⟳ beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.”

“Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase ⟳ the risk ⟳ of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase ⟳ in risk ⟳ is comparable to the risk ⟳ of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type ⟳ of cancer.”

“For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

“I am at this present ⟳ very sick of my little vapour of fame.”

“The press ⟳ operates as a safety-valve for the vapor of popular ebullision.”

“The previous question ⟳ had turned the attention to life as something peculiarly frail, and as of such a nature that no calculation could be based on its permanence. This expression gives a reason ⟳ for that, to wit, that it is a mere vapor.”

“Here we can explain ⟳ only in these broad outlines why the asking of the question ⟳ of being is in itself through and through historical, and why, accordingly, our question ⟳ as to whether being will remain ⟳ a mere vapor for us or become ⟳ the destiny of the West is anything but an exaggeration and a rhetorical figure ⟳.”

“Sulphurous fumes have ⟳ also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety of vapors in the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak ⟳.”

“Hence the vapor, so useful in expanding the compressed tissues and enabling the air to permeate and expand ⟳ the contracted parenchyma in consumption, causes a sensation of great fatigue in asthma.”

“Professor Matthews has at length the pleasure, after much unaboidable delay ⟳, of respectfully announcin to the Faculty, that he is prepared to fill ⟳ their prescriptions by any practicable formula, in the use ⟳ of his new method of applying medicinal vapors to the lungs, air-passages, & c., by means of the Multiform Fumigator .”

“The physician can now prescribe medicinal vapors to be dropped on some cotton placed inside the inhaler.”

“Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week.”

“She made several gulps and controlled her breath. She released her grip on Podson and stared at him without recognition. Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of the vapours.”

“"Shows you what a modern young woman can come ⟳ to after all, doesn't it? Screaming, and collapsing with the vapours - Hell!"”

“The surcharge of the stomack from a gross vapour, and from the poise of some outward weight, are alike”

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