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Pulmonary tuberculosis   /pˈʊlmənˌɛri təbˌərkjəlˈoʊsɪs/   Listen
Pulmonary tuberculosis

noun
1.
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.  Synonyms: consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague.






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"Pulmonary tuberculosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother with pulmonary tuberculosis should not nurse her child. An infant born of tuberculosis parents or of a family in which consumption prevails, should be brought up with the greatest care and guarded most particularly against catarrhal affections of all kinds. Special attention should be given to the ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... spine,—which one mother diagnosed as inherited "round shoulders,"—and save a child from being a humpback for life. Moreover, the examination of the crippled child's brothers and sisters will often show the beginnings of pulmonary tuberculosis. ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... invite your attention to a case of involuntary simulation of the symptoms distinguishing pulmonary tuberculosis by a patient suffering from a grave disease of totally different and possibly much less malignant character. Oblige me ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... a printed and published account by a doctor of how he tested his remedy for pulmonary tuberculosis, which was to inject a powerful germicide directly into the circulation by stabbing a vein with a syringe. He was one of those doctors who are able to command public sympathy by saying, quite truly, that ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw



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