Afflation

At 100 ° F. and in a perfectly damp atmosphere, there occurs an absolute stagnation of the air surrounding the living body: but as air of that temperature is never naturally saturated with moisture. afflation still affords relief by applying air capable of dissolving the animal perspiration, and thus occasioning an absorption of heat from the body.

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Stirred by the winds of some unseen afflation, he becomes restless .

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Toward the close of those warm, drowsy, Indian-summer afternoons of late September, when the sweet, refreshing air of welcomed evening breathes its cool afflation upon the heated forehead of dull, haggard toil and smoothes caressingly away the furrowed burden from the brow of care, age-worn by many a day;

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But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]

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