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Chapter 22 of A Treatise on Domestic Economy is here in full — 16 sentences across 4 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES. Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to. Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat. Common Cuts. Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.
Chapter 22 of A Treatise on Domestic Economy is here in full — 16 sentences across 4 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “accident” — an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
From this reading “ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.”
plural of “artery” — a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
From this reading “Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.”
plural of “cut” — a share of the profits
From this reading “Common Cuts.”
relating to the study or practice of medicine
From this reading “Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.”
past form of “resort” — have recourse to
From this reading “Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.”
plural of “substance” — the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
From this reading “Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.”
killing by depriving of oxygen
From this reading “Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.”
plural of “wound” — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading “Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.”
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plural of “accident” — an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
From this reading ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.
a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.
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From this reading ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.
plural of “artery” — a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
From this reading Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
From this reading Common Cuts.
plural of “cut” — a share of the profits
From this reading Common Cuts.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.
relating to the study or practice of medicine
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.
with little or no delay
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
past form of “resort” — have recourse to
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
From this reading Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
plural of “substance” — the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
From this reading Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.
killing by depriving of oxygen
From this reading Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.
The passage at the back of the mouth.
From this reading Suffocation, from Substances in the Throat.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to.
plural of “wound” — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
From this reading Wounds of Arteries, and other severe Cuts.
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