It cometh from the very chilled maw, or from the too much heated maw, or from too mickle fulness, or of too mickle leerness, that is emptiness, or of evil wet or humour rending and scarifying the maw.
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Leerness
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A feeling of nausea, giddiness, leerness or emptiness, are among the common symptoms of indigestion, and do not require any special description.
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The prime property assigned by Skoda to a percussion-sound, its fulness or its leerness (ideas adopted from Laennec) is, in fact, a compound perception, made up chiefly by the duration of the sound.
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In the second drawing of the case of Mr. L., however, the small area of “cardiac leerness,” or absolute dulness, corresponds very well to the probable size of the “cardiac” or “relative” dulness in the sense in which I suggest its use.
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