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Tell them and this, experience attests that every man born under the sign of Saturn is melancholy and pituitous, taciturn and solitary, poor and vain; that that sluggish star predisposes to superstition and fraud, directs epilepsies and varices, hemorrhoids and leprosies; that it is, alas! the great purveyor to hospital and prison and the scientists will shrug their shoulders and laugh at you.
They are secretly weary of a certain conscious dryness of nature in themselves, and this weariness predisposes them to idolize the man who brings them this unknown gift. Naturalists say that every defect of organization has its compensation, and men of ideal natures find in the favor of women the equivalent for their disabilities among men.
Whatever debilitates the constitution predisposes it for the reception or the generation of distemper. It, however, frequently occurs without any apparent exciting cause. That it is highly contagious cannot admit of doubt.
Sheep may be given about one-fourth the dose recommended for cattle. As a result, they eat greedily and the mass of feed in the rumen becomes so heavy that the walls of the organ can not move it about, and digestion is interfered with. This is especially true of succulent feeds. A diseased condition of the animal predisposes it to this disorder.
There is something in these little ever-recurring actions, however these things which we do so often as to do them unconsciously which predisposes to thought and reflection.
References of course are to Factors of Organic Evolution. P. 13; and Nineteenth Century, February, 1888, p. 211. Tomes's Dental Surgery, pp. 273-275. Tomes observes that it is as yet uncertain in what way civilization predisposes to caries.
Now, it has long been noticed that there is something in the influences, climatic or other, here prevailing, which predisposes to morbid religious excitement. The graver reader will not object to seeing the exact statement of a competent witness belonging to a by-gone century, confirmed as it is by all that we see about us.
Sometimes it is more persistent, as in the enlargement that is associated with adenoids, hypertrophied tonsils, carious teeth, eczema of the scalp, and otorrhœa; and it is possible that this indolent enlargement predisposes to tuberculous infection.
These violent exertions still producing more heat and greater momentum of the moving fluids, till at length the sensoral power becomes wasted by this great stimulus beneath its natural quantity, and predisposes the system to a second cold fit.
The injury varies according to the force of the fall, and the character of the road that the animal is travelling over. Some individuals are more liable to suffer from this class of injuries than others. Horses that are weak-kneed because of poor conformation, or knee-sprung, are inclined to stumble. Careless driving, especially if the animal is tired, predisposes it to this class of injury.
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