The Marshal who accompanied the patient from California to this institution states that the patient was resistive and negativistic; that he assumed various constrained attitudes; was untidy, mute, and refused food.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
His last illness was the result of a cold, and his advanced age, eighty-seven, left him little resistive vitality.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Usually, when the parasites were found, there was a distinct tendency to very low resistive vitality in the tissues, sometimes proceeding even to the extent of beginning pulmonary gangrene.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh