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"ref": "1921, The Living Church, page 761",
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"ref": "1922 December 31, Henry Vance, “New Year’s Resolutions”, in The Birmingham News, volume XXXV, number 310, Birmingham, Ala.",
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"ref": "1928, Pennsylvanian, page 150",
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"ref": "1928, The Annalist: A Magazine of Finance, Commerce and Economics, page 453",
"text": "The hectic history of oil exploitation can show nothing for hecticity to equal the effort of exploitation of the last ten years in Venezuela.",
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"ref": "1930, Philip Gibbs, The Hidden City, page 22",
"text": "How about late hours, heated rooms, traffic-dodging down the Portsmouth Road, general hecticity, and the soul-sickness of a futile life?",
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"ref": "1997, G. Rappai, J. Varga, “Applicability of the CAPM on the Hungarian stock market: An empirical investigation”, in Constantin Zopounidis, editor, New Operational Approaches for Financial Modelling (Contributions to Management Science), Physica-Verlag, section III (Financial Markets, Portfolio Theory and Selection), page 142",
"text": "The decreasing of the price-spread shows that the hecticity of the market is decreasing, the market is approaching the equilibrium.",
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"ref": "1878, L[éon Athanese] Gosselin, “I. Hyperostosis of Right Femur. II. Necrosis of Left Tibia.”, in Lewis A. Stimson, transl., Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at the Hospital of La Charité, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry C. Lea, part I (Surgical Diseases of Youth), page 42",
"text": "The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;",
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"ref": "1878 June, F. Monod, “On Forced Dilatation of the Sphincter Ani. Considered specially in its application to the treatment of hæmorrhoids.”, in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume V, New Orleans, La.: T. H. Thomason, […], page 978",
"text": "The author enumerates certain contra-indications; he insists upon hæmarrhage as the principal indication, and shows how the sufferer from hæmorrhoids who, from daily fluxes, has reached the last stage of hecticity, may be immediately restored by a simple and harmless operation;",
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"ref": "1883 January 13, “Therapeutical Value of Continuous Baths”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume I. for 1883, London: […] J. & A. Churchill, page 49",
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"ref": "1885 September 15, “Antipyretic Indications: The New Antipyretic—Antipyrine—A Specific in Tuberculous Fever”, in The Physicians and Surgeons’ Investigator: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume VI, number 9, Buffalo, N.Y.: […] the Physicians and Surgeons’ Association, page 262",
"text": "That indications for antipyretics should be filled first, and before all others, in the treatment of chronic tubercular disease when the patient is being gradually consumed by slow fever; because, while this fever exists, it may be said to hold out a standing invitation to hecticity, marasmus, and a further extension of inflammation in the lung-tissue.",
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"ref": "1890, J. D. Law, “Synovitis”, in The Texas Courier-Record of Medicine, volume VII, Dallas, Tex.: The Texas Medical Publishing Co., page 239",
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"ref": "1891 June 13, A. G. Auld, “Fibroid Pneumonia”, in The Lancet. A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health, and News., volume I. for 1891; sixty-ninth year, number 3537, London, page 1309",
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"ref": "1921, The Living Church, page 761",
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"ref": "1922 December 31, Henry Vance, “New Year’s Resolutions”, in The Birmingham News, volume XXXV, number 310, Birmingham, Ala.",
"text": "Jack Dempsey will swear off of so much hecticity.",
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},
{
"ref": "1928, Pennsylvanian, page 150",
"text": "’Twas in sooth the Christmas party, for which the Juniors and the Freshmen had truly in slavish fashion prepared amid the general hecticity of the pre-vacation days.",
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},
{
"ref": "1928, The Annalist: A Magazine of Finance, Commerce and Economics, page 453",
"text": "The hectic history of oil exploitation can show nothing for hecticity to equal the effort of exploitation of the last ten years in Venezuela.",
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},
{
"ref": "1930, Philip Gibbs, The Hidden City, page 22",
"text": "How about late hours, heated rooms, traffic-dodging down the Portsmouth Road, general hecticity, and the soul-sickness of a futile life?",
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},
{
"ref": "1997, G. Rappai, J. Varga, “Applicability of the CAPM on the Hungarian stock market: An empirical investigation”, in Constantin Zopounidis, editor, New Operational Approaches for Financial Modelling (Contributions to Management Science), Physica-Verlag, section III (Financial Markets, Portfolio Theory and Selection), page 142",
"text": "The decreasing of the price-spread shows that the hecticity of the market is decreasing, the market is approaching the equilibrium.",
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}
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"text": "The suppurating osteo-myelitis and arthritis did not assume a form sufficiently putrid to cause purulent infection; the patient also escaped hecticity;",
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},
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"ref": "1878 June, F. Monod, “On Forced Dilatation of the Sphincter Ani. Considered specially in its application to the treatment of hæmorrhoids.”, in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume V, New Orleans, La.: T. H. Thomason, […], page 978",
"text": "The author enumerates certain contra-indications; he insists upon hæmarrhage as the principal indication, and shows how the sufferer from hæmorrhoids who, from daily fluxes, has reached the last stage of hecticity, may be immediately restored by a simple and harmless operation;",
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},
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"ref": "1883 January 13, “Therapeutical Value of Continuous Baths”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News., volume I. for 1883, London: […] J. & A. Churchill, page 49",
"text": "And neither ‘hecticity’ nor purulent fever was produced.",
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},
{
"ref": "1885 September 15, “Antipyretic Indications: The New Antipyretic—Antipyrine—A Specific in Tuberculous Fever”, in The Physicians and Surgeons’ Investigator: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume VI, number 9, Buffalo, N.Y.: […] the Physicians and Surgeons’ Association, page 262",
"text": "That indications for antipyretics should be filled first, and before all others, in the treatment of chronic tubercular disease when the patient is being gradually consumed by slow fever; because, while this fever exists, it may be said to hold out a standing invitation to hecticity, marasmus, and a further extension of inflammation in the lung-tissue.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1890, J. D. Law, “Synovitis”, in The Texas Courier-Record of Medicine, volume VII, Dallas, Tex.: The Texas Medical Publishing Co., page 239",
"text": "Should suppuration ensue we would have symptoms of hecticity.",
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},
{
"ref": "1891 June 13, A. G. Auld, “Fibroid Pneumonia”, in The Lancet. A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health, and News., volume I. for 1891; sixty-ninth year, number 3537, London, page 1309",
"text": "There is cough, with tenacious mucus and bronchitis, then hecticity.",
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},
{
"ref": "1928, Marcelino Herrera Vegas, Hydatid Cysts of the Lung in Children, page 111",
"text": "A large proportion are from hecticity or from pulmonary complications after the opening of the cyst into the bronchii.",
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