When diphtheritic inflammation begins in the respiratory tract, sore throat and fever usually develop.Prostration and dyspnea soon follow because of the obstruction caused by the membrane。
You saw them making obeisance at one shrine or another and sometimes lying full length on the ground, face downward, in the ritual attitude of prostration.
Aureliano Segundo felt a twinge of conscience when he saw Meme's state of prostration and he promised himself to take better care of her in the future.
In his physical prostration St. Cleeve wept bitterly at not being hale and strong enough to welcome with proper honour the present specimen of these desirable visitors.
" The Queen is suffering from great physical prostration, accompanied by symptoms which cause much anxiety, " announced Sir James Reid, Queen Victoria's physician, two days before her death in 1901.
The colonel sat watching him keenly, noting with experienced eyes the unsteady hands and lips, the hair dripping with water, the dim gaze that told of physical prostration and disordered nerves.