tuberculous

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Diseases like the Spanish flu and tuberculous raced through the overcrowded schools.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022

Disease, particularly tuberculous and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed World War I, swept through the overcrowded dorms.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2021

He was a frail, tuberculous stalk of a fellow with a hatchet face crowned on a high dome with an inverted bowl of reddish hair cut in bangs.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found her almost comatose, kept up Burkhardt's precautionary measures, and started additional injections of isoniazid and streptomycin to attack the suspected tuberculous infection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its value as a test is evident from the statement of Cohnheim,54 who regards as tuberculous only that which produces tuberculosis when transferred to suitable animals.

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