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It was more than ever noticeable, the poor hungry wretchedness of the river coolies. For three days past all the trackers I had seen were the most wretched in physique of any I had met in China. Phthisis and malaria prevail among them; their work is terribly arduous; they suffer greatly from exposure; they appear to be starving in the midst of abundance.
The thing I should be most afraid of is his general health. You can see that he's delicate narrow-chested a bundle of nerves. It might be phthisis it might be" he shrugged his shoulders "well, depression, bad neurasthenia. And the poor lad seems to have no family no mother or sisters to look after him. But he'll want a lot of care, if he's to pull round again. An Oxford row, wasn't it?
This patient died of phthisis. A very singular case, published early in the century, was that of a woman whose hair, naturally fair, assumed a tawny red color as often as she was affected with a certain fever, and returned to its natural hue as soon as the symptoms abated.
There were, of course, innumerable illustrations of the truth of these Aphorisms in extensive wounds, especially those involving crushed limbs, in the late war. 'Phthisis occurs most commonly between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. 'Diarrhœa supervening on phthisis is mortal.
"There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis." "These gentlemen tell me you're acting editor. Who appointed you?" Psmith reflected. "It is rather a nice point," he said. "It might be claimed that I appointed myself. You may say, however, that Comrade Windsor appointed me." "Ah! And where is Mr. Windsor?"
#Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteo-Arthropathy.# This condition, which was described by Marie in 1890, is secondary to disease in the chest, such as chronic phthisis, empyema, bronchiectasis, or sarcoma of the lung. There is symmetrical enlargement and deformity of the hands and feet; the shafts of the bones are thickened, and the soft tissues of the terminal segments of the digits hypertrophied.
Thou hast heard of it often. From fear of Rama, my brother fled, the more so as his subject deserted him. During this period, he became very much attached to his wives and accordingly had an attack of phthisis. The subjects then, afflicted by fear of hunger, hastened to me and said, 'Thy subjects are on the point of being exterminated. Be thou our king for the sake of our good.
He had left England to escape phthisis; and he had gone to Mashonaland because it was a place where he could earn an open-air living, and save his parents from the burden of his support. "What's Halket doing over there?" he asked suddenly, raising his head. "Weren't you here this morning?" asked the Colonial. "Didn't you know they'd had a devil of a row?"
But, all at once, colour came back to her cheeks, her eyes opened, and she drew a long breath. She was cured; she dressed herself without any help and made a good meal after she had been to the Grotto to thank the Blessed Virgin. There! there's no gainsaying it, that was a real case of phthisis, completely cured as though by medicine!"
They knock out their opponents, they lift enormous weights, but they die of phthisis or dyspepsia. If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
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