How To Use phthisis In A Sentence
- He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
- Therefore it is of vital importance, more so in the future, than it has been in the past, that practical physicians employ all possible means to diagnosticate phthisis in as early a stage as possible. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
- Whereas the negro constitution, being the opposite of all this, is not subject to Phthisis, although it partakes of what is called the scrofulous diathesis. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
- Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there. Les Miserables
- The true tertian comes quickly to a crisis, and is not fatal; but the quintan is the worst of all, for it proves fatal when it precedes an attack of phthisis, and when it supervenes on persons who are already consumptive. Of The Epidemics
- Bronchitis both acute and chronic, chronic pneumonia and phthisis, acute pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia, may all leave after them a bronchiectasis whose position is determined by the primary lesion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. Les Miserables
- For this kind of phthisis there is no hope of cure. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
- Several other events have acted to reignite the old problem known as phthisis, consumption, or the white plague (named for the pallor it causes).
- Tuberculosis, first known as phthisis or consumption, has been recognized as a leading cause of American deaths for as long as records have been kept.
