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
Tubercular phthisis was once considered to be almost necessarily a fatal disease, although with a very indefinite period of duration.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Of fifty-nine resident medical assistants who lived in the hospital an average of six months each, only two are dead, and these not from phthisis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Koch has found in examining the sputa from numerous cases of phthisis that the bacilli were present in one-half the number, and that they were absent from the sputa of individuals who were not phthisical.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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