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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In the first place he one day came to me with a woeful face, and besought me to carefully examine his chest, for he was convinced he was developing phthisis.

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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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In a few instances we found the lesions of chronic phthisis, which had, of course, existed before the attack of relapsing fever.

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