The treatment of inflammation of mucous membrane is based upon the same principles as inflammation of the skin, and there too we usually associate means (I) for removing microbes, (2) for destroying them, (3) for lessening the irritation they produce, and (4) for repairing any mischief they have done.
The goldfields of the Yukon, though still valuable, show a lessening production.
Antiviral drugs are available that have some effect on lessening the symptoms and decreasing the length of herpes outbreaks.
The Original Other looked up, the magic lessening.
With basic substances, the chromophoric combination with a colourless acid is generally attended by a deepening in colour; auxochromic combination, on the other hand, with a lessening.
