Meanings
- not comparablemedicineBeginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.
- not comparablemedicineDescriptive of an existing condition or state that caused, predisposed for or excited a present condition.
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Procatarctic cause, called also primitive and incipient cause, is either an occasion which of its own nature does not beget a disease, but, happening on a body inclined to diseases, breeds a fever, gout &c. (such as are watching, fasting, and the like); or an evident and manifest cause, which immediately produces the disease, as being sufficient thereto, such as is a sword in respect to a wound.
1797, Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, Encyclopædia Britannica, "Causes", page 271
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