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
Phthisis may be developed in consequence of an attack of influenza, and if phthisis be already established it is apt to run a more rapid course.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Three of the living are said to have phthisis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Tubercular phthisis was once considered to be almost necessarily a fatal disease, although with a very indefinite period of duration.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Two head-nurses only are known to have died—one from apoplexy; the other head-nurse was here seven months, was unhappily married, and some time afterward died of phthisis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
