phthisis

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I then forwarded the collection to Washington as ordered except one Ogalalla skull of a young squaw that died of phthisis.

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The city is full of phthisis; the insanitary conditions under which the vast majority of the inhabitants live favour its rapid dissemination.

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A toothache produces more violent convulsions of pain than a phthisis or a dropsy.

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We must take the world as we find it, full of men and women predisposed to tubercular phthisis, and with no idea of its contagious nature.

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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.

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