Like Rush, he thought poisons had to be "abstracted" in severely debilitated patients. Spiers also suffered severe anxiety, which sometimes left him completely debilitated. He left physically debilitated, but calm and peaceful as before. The episode debilitated Luce physically and mentally, and she resigned her post in December 1956. They can cause infection in debilitated patients. Desmond became obsessed with elevating himself greatly above his debilitated intellect. Three weeks before he died, he became debilitated by pneumonia. These doctors did acknowledge the usefulness of anabolic steroids for debilitated patients. The fights are seldom fatal but may leave the loser considerably debilitated. The spread of oral candidiasis to other sites usually occurs in debilitated individuals. Not having been properly prepared, the meal temporarily debilitated them. In 1990, she suffered a stroke, which temporarily debilitated her writing process. Cancrum oris (noma) is a very rare complication, usually in debilitated children. A regent may rule when the monarch is a minor, absent, or debilitated. By June, Barrett's increasing LSD use during the recording project left him looking visibly debilitated.