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

The illegitimate son of a tuberculous war widow and an itinerant Dutch street singer, Jurgen Bartsch was adopted in 1954 by a Catholic couple.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter adhered to Virchow's views relating to scrofulous inflammation, but maintained that most consumptives were in imminent danger of becoming tuberculous in accordance with the doctrines of Buhl.

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