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relieve and itch
And even deeper than that: his fear lest in this closed hall he should suddenly itch to relieve himself.
A new method has been recently found, by Hans-Jorgen Nilsson and others, that is able to relieve itch without damaging the skin: cutaneous field stimulation ( CFS ).
Scratching has traditionally been regarded as a way to relieve oneself by reducing the annoying itch sensation.
* Topical steroid cream can relieve itch.
* Ammonium hydroxide ( household ammonia ), applied topically ( However it can relieve some kinds of insect stings which itch, such as mosquito bites, by neutralizing an acid component of the sting.
In a September 2, 2008 document, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration recommended applying topical OTC skin protectants, such as calamine, to relieve the itch caused by poisonous plants such as poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.
This will help relieve some of the itch.

relieve and men
Look Jed, this is an open and shut case and I have to relieve my men at the road block soon.
The prefect of Legio II Augusta, Poenius Postumus, stationed near Exeter, ignored the call, and a fourth legion, IX Hispana, had been routed trying to relieve Camulodunum, but nonetheless the governor was able to call on almost ten thousand men.
Long interested in conservation, Roosevelt was aware of the numerous forestry programs set up in 1931 – 32 in the U. S. and Europe designed to relieve unemployment by sending young men to work in the woods.
His first assignment is to transport the company men up-river to the company's innermost station, so that they can relieve its chief manager Kurtz, who has become very ill.
Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be in accordance with the Lotus Sutra, where Avalokitesvara has the supernatural power of assuming any form required to relieve suffering, and also has the power to grant children ( possibly relating to the fact that in this Sutra, unlike in others, both men and women are believed to have the ability to achieve enlightenment.
However in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17, 000 men, once again drove off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it was another six weeks before Serrano managed to relieve Bilbao.
Governor Duquesne sent additional French forces under Claude-Pierre Pecaudy de Contrecœur to relieve Saint-Pierre during the same period, and Contrecœur led 500 men south from Fort Venango on April 5, 1754.
* Emperor Valerian leads an army ( 70, 000 men ) to relieve Edessa, besieged by the forces of king Shapur I.
Stanley appears as a character in Simon Gray's 1978 play The Rear Column, which tells the story of the men left behind to wait for Tippu Tib while Stanley went on to relieve Emin Pasha.
Probably John's most notable feat of arms occurred in August – December 1373, when he attempted to relieve Aquitaine by the landward route, leading an army of some 9, 000 mounted men from Calais on a great chevauchée from north-eastern to south-western France on a 900 kilometer raid.
The men tried to relieve their longing with the fresh meat of animals.
When the war in Sudan broke out, Baker, hastening with 3500 men to relieve Tokar, encountered the enemy under Osman Digna at El Teb.
The Habsburg Spanish army of about 27, 000 men, advanced from Flanders, through the Ardennes, and into northern France to relieve French pressure on the Franche-Comté and Catalonia.
Initially the men hoped to be able to wait for the British 2nd Army to resume their advance and thus relieve them, but when it became clear that the Allies would not cross the Rhine that year the men decided to escape back to Allied territory.
The two men overcome their captors, relieve Shevket of Mirza, and ride away.
As the Marquis de Castel-Rodrigo had not yet been informed of the fall of the city, he sent another army of 12, 000 men under the Marquis de Marchin, to relieve Lille.
It called for signatories to " overthrow the kingdom of darkness " and pledge that " We shall to our power relieve the church and subjects of this kingdom of that opposition that hath been exercised upon their consciences, civil rights and liberties, that men may serve him holily, without fear, and possess their civil rights in quietness, without disturbance.
According to the Shinchō kōki Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu brought a total force of 38, 000 men to relieve the siege on the castle by Takeda Katsuyori.
In the subsequent Battle of Nagashino, the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga brought a total force of 38, 000 men to relieve the siege on the castle by Takeda Katsuyori.
William sent an army to relieve Saint-Omer but was defeated at the village of Zuytpeene just to the west of Cassel, losing 7-8, 000 men killed or wounded and another 4, 000 taken prisoner.
The next morning, the three companies of 4 / 503 were chosen to set out and relieve the men on Hill 875.
Failure or refusal to relieve the symptoms often results in waves of spontaneous orgasms in women and ejaculation in men.

relieve and got
: The first two rows ... were occupied by the other dressers, and behind a second partition stood the pupils, packed like herrings in a barrel, but not so quiet, as those behind them were continually pressing on those before and were continually struggling to relieve themselves of it, and had not infrequently to be got out exhausted.
Work progressed until 1956 when the public were told the project was no longer economic ; instead Birmingham got its underpasses through the city to help relieve congestion.

relieve and into
As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".
Local anesthetic injections into the nerves or sensitive areas of the stump may relieve pain for days, weeks or, sometimes permanently, despite the drug wearing off in a matter of hours ; and small injections of hypertonic saline into the soft tissue between vertebrae produces local pain that radiates into the phantom limb for ten minutes or so and may be followed by hours, weeks or even longer of partial or total relief from phantom pain.
One may step into the tub to relieve sore calves, quads, hams, and connective tissues from hips to toes will gain the same benefits, making hydrotherapy an attractive preventive regimen.
From September 27, 2001, one-occupant cars were banned from crossing into Lower Manhattan from Midtown on weekday mornings in an effort to relieve some of the crush of traffic in the city ( the morning rush hour lasts from 5: 30 a. m. to 12: 00 p. m .), caused largely by the increased security measures put in place.
Finding on arrival that the British troops already in South Africa were under siege, he split his army corps into several widely spread detachments, to relieve the besieged garrisons.
To relieve pressure from the expected German attack into Alsace-Lorraine, Napoleon III and others in the French high command planned at the outset of the war to launch a seaborne invasion of northern Germany.
They renewed the siege while Edmund went to Wessex to raise further troops, returning to again relieve London, defeat the Danes at Otford, and pursue Cnut into Kent.
The plan was to relieve Port Arthur by sea, link up with the First Pacific Squadron, overwhelm the Imperial Japanese Navy, and then delay the Japanese advance into Manchuria until Russian reinforcements could arrive via the Trans-Siberian railroad and overwhelm the Japanese land forces in Manchuria.
They wanted nothing more than to rid themselves forever of their “ Indian problem ,” to relieve themselves of their impoverished, uncivilized counterparts and replace them with independent Americanized Christian agricultural society, and so on February 8, 1887, the Dawes Allotment Act was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
Atmospheric air is admitted into the pulsation chamber about once per second ( the pulsation rate ) to allow the liner to collapse around the end of teat and relieve congestion in the teat tissue.
Shortly after the war the 187th ARCT was considered for use in an Airborne drop to relieve the surrounded French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam but the United States, at that time, decided not to send its troops into the combat zone.
When the militant prelates of York and Durham together with the Earl of Northumberland took their forces into the marches to relieve the fortress, the Scots swiftly retreated — a chronicle written a year later said that the Scots ' had fled wretchedly and ignominiously '— but the effects and the manner of the defeat and the loss of their expensive artillery was a major reversal for James both in terms of foreign policy and internal authority.
The Spartans, however, with the assistance of a Persian army, began to drive this Athenian force into the sea ; seeing this, Thrasybulus landed his own force to temporarily relieve pressure on Alcibiades, and meanwhile ordered Theramenes to join up with Athenian land forces nearby and bring them to reinforce the sailors and marines on the beach.
An attempt to relieve Naples by sea was badly bungled when Totila was informed during unnecessary delays, and a storm dispersed a second attempt, delivering the general, Demetrius, into Totila's hands.
Only Ernie Shore ever fashioned a longer spell of no-hit relief, although Bobby Shantz pitched 9 no-hit innings in relief on 05 / 06 / 1949, when Connie Mack brought him into his second major league game to relieve with no outs in the 4th inning.
The gods turned him into a swan to relieve him of his pity.
In view of the increasing number of cases brought before the General Court in the last five years, in order to relieve it of some of the caseload, the Treaty of Nice, which entered into force on February 1, 2003, provides for the creation of ‘ judicial panels ’ in certain specific areas.
The bellows not only relieve the player from the effort needed to blow into a bag to maintain pressure, they also allow relatively dry air to power the reeds, reducing the adverse effects of moisture on tuning and longevity.
Beauregard also proposed a grand strategy — submitted anonymously through his political allies so that it was not tainted by his reputation — to reinforce the Western armies at the expense of Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, destroy the Federal army in Tennessee, which would induce Ulysses S. Grant to relieve pressure on Vicksburg and maneuver his army into a place where it could be destroyed.
The Riverview name eventually came into usage in the early 1940s by the post office to relieve just such confusion with the mail.
King Charles moved to relieve the city and push Peter's forces back into Russia.
Towards the end of the Second World War, E. G. Taverner, the chief engineer for the Drainage Board, devised a plan to relieve flooding in Spalding by creating a bypass channel, and building the Greatford Cut to divert the waters of the West Glen river into the Welland upstream of Market Deeping.

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