And all sputa are bad which do not remove the pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Of Prognostics] Reference

Of all others the sputa which remove the pain are the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Of Prognostics] Reference

From spitting of pus arise phthisis and a flux; and when the sputa are stopped, they die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

He noted the temperature; rate and other qualities of the pulse; looked at the tongue and sputa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference

It is probable that the evacuation of the sputa brought about the recovery on the thirty-fourth day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

I saw you take the sputa of a ague patient and demonstrate the spores and sporangia of the Gemiasma verdans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

I should here remark that I had in examining the sputa of this patient sent to me, found some of the ague plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

The belchings from gas were loud and frequent; the sputa by actual measure was about six ounces during every twenty-four hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference

The focus of the new programme is to diagnose and cure 85 percent of new patients whose sputa are positive for the TB bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The germ of pulmonary consumption, known as the bacillus tuberculosis, is contained in the breath and the sputa from the lungs of its victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The signs of fluid in the left pleura were accompanied by those of consolidation over the lower fourth of the right lung, and the sputa were rusty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Phthisical sputa are dried and made moist with very much diluted potash lye (1 to 2 drops of a 33 per cent. potash lye in a watch glass of distilled water).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

In such a case, unless there be a flow of blood from the nose, or an abscess form about the neck, or pain in the limbs, or the patient expectorate thick sputa.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference

I should say that I have examined a great deal of sputa, but, with the exception of cases that were malarious, I have not encountered the mature plants before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

In persons affected with phthisis, if the sputa which they cough up have a heavy smell when poured upon coals, and if the hairs of the head fall off, the case will prove fatal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

As soon as the stomach and bowels became empty there was comfort all along the line, and the cough was so diminished, that less than an ounce of sputa was raised in twenty-four hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference

In this condition he continued, with the cough gradually increasing, for nearly twenty years, as I understand, when he began to void black sputa, which daily augmented in quantity till his decease, August 1836.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

I had the curiosity, during my attendance on this patient, to separate the mucus from the carbon, by the simple process of diluting the sputa with water, and thereafter separating and drying the precipitated carbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

I ordered soothing expectorants, and the dark sputa were profusely voided, and ultimately disappeared; but whether any of the carbon had made a permanent lodgment in the pulmonary tissue, is what I have never been able to ascertain.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

When the pains in these regions do not cease, either with the discharge of the sputa, nor with alvine evacuations, nor from venesection, purging with medicine, nor a suitable regimen, it is to be held that they will terminate in suppurations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book Of Prognostics] Reference

The sputa may not be rusty until after several days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

When it was renewed, blood again appeared in the sputa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and even lung muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference

The sputa from gangrenous lungs had, for several weeks, been deposited on a bank of sand placed by the bed for that purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Southern Sanitarium. Vol. 1, no. 4 (January 1, 1897)] Reference

Cannot walk: Pneumonia of right lung, and I cough all day and all night: sputa rust of iron and bloody: distressing weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death]

Moving is always good in fever; now I had a pain in the chest, and rust of iron sputa: my lungs, my strongest part, were thus affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death]

The value of the microscope cannot be overestimated, at least in the examination of the sputa of a human being, and thus being able to state positively whether or not the man is suffering from consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891] Reference

On the sixth sputa mixed, reddish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

“…la macchina dello sfruttamento finale, si alimenta con esseri umani, e depreda la terra; succhia la natura da una parte e sputa beni di consumo dall’altra.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fat Clips!!! : BBC2: Bruce Parry Ident] Reference

En acetum, fel, arundo, sputa, clavi, lancea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference