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Throstle adored Rosie, who had rescued him in the last three months from a life of uninterrupted lapdoggery by bringing him on her stable rounds every morning […]

The diagnostic marks of alkaline excess are asthenicity and aplasticity, while the signs of acid diathesis (except the phosphoric) are sthenicity and plasticity;[…]Excessive plasticity and sthenicity indicates excess of acid or deficiency of alkali in the system;