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
Chapin suffered from two afflictions: tuberculous throat and a thirst for gambling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sea View, which housed 1,500 tuberculous patients in 1951, now has only 21, is being turned mainly into a hospital and home for the aged.
From Time Magazine Archive
The history of scrofulous glands, as well as that of circumscribed pulmonary inflammation in scrofulous persons, both presumably of a tuberculous nature, show that the effects of an invasion of the parasites may be overcome.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
