Consumption: Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Cure (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Consumption - portentous word word of sad reminder to thousands of families whose diminished membership is the re sult of the disease it designates. Word indicative of apprehension to thousands of other families, who dread its occur rence in some of the brightest and most loved of the family circle. Probably over three million members of the human race are swept from life each year by pulmon ary consumption, or phthisis, as we shall designate the disease in the following pages, that being the name most fre quently given to it by the medical proies sion. Ghastly monumental epitaph in record of the ignorance, Slothfulness, and unfortunate surroundings and conditions incident to the lives of the great majority of the human race. If during some uh usual epidemic, - as of yellow fever or cholera, for example, - a few thousand ih.

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