The Nature, Symptoms, and Treatment of Consumption: Being the Essay to which was Awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London |
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... fatal properties . The phthisis of children , although in many cases severe and rapidly fatal , is , upon the whole , more frequently recovered from than that of the adult , and this from two causes : -first , from the greater power of ...
... fatal properties . The phthisis of children , although in many cases severe and rapidly fatal , is , upon the whole , more frequently recovered from than that of the adult , and this from two causes : -first , from the greater power of ...
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... of its most painful con- sequences ; but he will fail in his attempts to check its onward progress , or to prevent its fatal issue . D CHAP . V. THE IDENTITY OF CONSUMPTION AND SCROFULA . CURABILITY OF CONSUMPTION . 33.
... of its most painful con- sequences ; but he will fail in his attempts to check its onward progress , or to prevent its fatal issue . D CHAP . V. THE IDENTITY OF CONSUMPTION AND SCROFULA . CURABILITY OF CONSUMPTION . 33.
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... fatal ; scrofula is now manifest in the survivor , and seems , indeed , to be the sole condition to her reprieve . The coexistence of the two , although occasionally seen in adult life , is more frequent amongst children , numbers of ...
... fatal ; scrofula is now manifest in the survivor , and seems , indeed , to be the sole condition to her reprieve . The coexistence of the two , although occasionally seen in adult life , is more frequent amongst children , numbers of ...
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... fatal . * Two of the cases of diseased heart consisted of valvular obstruction , evidently of old standing , -in all pro- bability long antecedent to the commencement of phthisis ; the other case was only discovered at the post - mortem ...
... fatal . * Two of the cases of diseased heart consisted of valvular obstruction , evidently of old standing , -in all pro- bability long antecedent to the commencement of phthisis ; the other case was only discovered at the post - mortem ...
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... fatal , since it cannot be a very common thing for both parents to be consumptive , yet a large number of patients came from such a source . ( 3. ) Of those not predisposed , the male sex being more numerous ( 393 , or 67.5 per cent ...
... fatal , since it cannot be a very common thing for both parents to be consumptive , yet a large number of patients came from such a source . ( 3. ) Of those not predisposed , the male sex being more numerous ( 393 , or 67.5 per cent ...
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