The term phthisis, consumption, appears first in Greek literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Mekong states to confront China over low river level] Reference

The term phthisis, consumption, appears first in.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to How clean is Seattle's drinking water?] Reference

For this kind of phthisis there is no hope of cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

When "phthisis" came they all sprang up, and vowed the man who rung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

Assailed by phthisis in this way, Shoma came to Daksha.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

She was threatened with phthisis, and was far too thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladybird] Reference

The air is fatal to phthisis, as it is also in Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Accidents or sequelae are hemoptysis, empyema and phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

He was attacked while yet in the prime of youth, with phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

In plain terms, there is no remedy whatever for alcoholic phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The observations of Dr. Marcet, F.R.S., show that in phthisis there is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference

Diarrhoea attacking a person affected with phthisis is a mortal symptom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphorisms] Reference

To illustrate: -- suppose a patient afflicted with phthisis is sent to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.] Reference

His mother died in his ninth year, after a second marriage, a victim to phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

Towards the end of 1897 he developed a bad cough and was threatened with phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis after a very short time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

Men with a phthisis have this burned-up look, till one day they cough blood and die.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

One pound a day for the miner who earns his phthisis and goes home broken and to die.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. 'ASINAMALI' (WE HAVE NO MONEY)] Reference

Before his death from a terminal phthisis, he had taken to the street as an Abraham-man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

Halifax, was taken ill with phthisis, and the following summer I was informed that she could not live.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference

His chest was delicate, and one very chilly night he caught a cold which rapidly developed into phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference

The Rishi then said unto Shoma, -- Thou art being reduced by the disease phthisis that has assailed thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

"Swan Songs," published posthumously, for, not long after, the poet unfortunately developed phthisis and died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919] Reference

It is more than probable too that the open air and manner of living benefited many cases of incipient phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

The cacodylates, although formerly employed in the treatment of phthisis, should be used with the utmost caution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

Here reside many patients suffering from phthisis, for the air is dry and warm and the rainfall phenomenally small.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference

It is one of the most fearful characteristics of murrain; it is the destructive accompaniment, or consequence, of phthisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

When the white miner became phthisis conscious, drilling ceased to be regarded as skilled and was entrusted wholly to Africans.    From Wordnik.com.  [file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt] Reference

Cornish miners returned home or died of phthisis, Africans were employed to 'run' the machine drill for an unskilled labourer's wage.    From Wordnik.com.  [file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt] Reference

"Perhaps if you should open a man's mouth and pour in tubercle bacilli he might get phthisis, but compulsory notification is preposterous.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

'We regard as a miner a white underground worker,' the SAMWUs secretary said in 1931 before a parliamentary committee on the phthisis laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 22] Reference

Was this, then, some special case of phthisis complicated by neurosis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5] Reference