Prodromous

"The neglect of this has led to much difference of opinion, and a great deal of vain and idle discussion: one party affirming that the disease consists essentially in the direct and immediate impression of the morbific cause upon the susceptibilities of the living organization; the other, that this should be merely regarded as a kind of prelude, or prodromous, and that the disease is not developed , until the influence of the cause has concentrated itself upon some tissue or organ, so as to give rise to some molecular modification of its structure, by impressing upon its vitalism certain abnormal or perverted actions, by which its nutrition becomes changed."

"Prodromous Clouds whose edges are fringed with Gold, comfort us with the hopes of an approaching greater Light, which when the Sun is up, do but darken the Horizon."

"Where the second eye was quite free from prodromous symptoms, Græfe has seen it frequently affected shortly after operation on the first, somewhere about 10 per cent."

"Whichever view is taken, it is equally antagonistic to the rule of prodromous catheterism in forceps-delivery."