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

Elevation of site has importance, not only in regard to climatic hygiene, but also to its therapeutic use, particularly in the treatment of phthisis, goitre, and some affections of the nervous system.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

Continued diarrhoea, phthisis pulmonalis, mesenteric disease, cancer, and aneurism of the aorta are among the most frequent causes of great emaciation.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

This form of phthisis may follow either croupous or catarrhal pneumonia.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various