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

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

A hacking cough, with little expectoration, is not infrequently observed for a time in incipient phthisis.

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

Their constant presence in the sputum of the frequent cases of tuberculous phthisis suggests a ready means for their escape into the atmosphere.

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