phthisis
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Wall Streeters parochially felt that the Administration's encouraging words were calculated to alleviate the stock market's phthisis.
From Time Magazine Archive
In advanced phthisis there are distressing spells of deep, laborious coughing, especially in the night or in the morning after sleep.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
A toothache produces more violent convulsions of pain than a phthisis or a dropsy.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
In phthisis pulmonalis among the best signs are the patient's increasing in weight, coughing and expectorating less, ceasing to have hectic and night sweats.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The city is full of phthisis; the insanitary conditions under which the vast majority of the inhabitants live favour its rapid dissemination.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.
