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Shorten time, you make love a precious ecstasy; restrict liberty, freedom is a lust none the worse for being lawful. No Pole knows how long he may have to live: Russia or phthisis will have him late or soon. What he pursues, then, must be fleeting imagine with what rapture he takes it to his breast! with what frenzy he guards it, never knowing when it will be required of him again. Feverish?
"It was enough for me to hold my tongue when you made that fool statement of yours that wouldn't have deceived a man with the brains of an ox." "My death will be due to phthisis; my left lung is almost consumed, and you know it," affirmed Lot. "And I tell you," said the doctor, stoutly, "that your death from phthisis might not have occurred for ten years to come.
And throughout this unceasing delirium, Play may pour, at your will, its molten lead into your veins. "Some day you will fall into the monster's power. Then you will have, as I had, a frenzied awakening, with impotence sitting by your pillow. Are you an old soldier? Phthisis attacks you. A diplomatist? An aneurism hangs death in your heart by a thread.
A patient comes to you with asthma and wants to know where he can breathe; another comes to you with phthisis and wants to know where he can live.
If she now rose it was only to drag herself from chair to chair for a few days at a time, and then she would have a relapse and be again forced to take to her bed. Her sufferings became terrible. Her hereditary nervousness, her asthma, aggravated by cloister life, had probably turned into phthisis. She coughed frightfully, each fit rending her burning chest and leaving her half dead.
Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge of Europe.
Several persons arrived in the colony suffering from pulmonary and bronchial affections, asthma, phthisis, haemoptysis, or spitting of blood, hopeless of recovery in England, are now perfectly restored, or living in comparative health measles and small-pox are unknown." W. H. Sholl, Esq.
"The swelling often presents an irregular surface, and various centres of maturation exist; but the evacuations only effect a partial and temporary reduction of its bulk, in consequence of the continued extension of the morbid growth and ulcerative process which often proceed towards the pharynx, rendering respiration and deglutition still more difficult, until at length the animal sinks from atrophy or phthisis pulmonalis.
A disease of the lungs, attended with fever and cough, and causing a decay of the bodily powers. The medical name is phthisis. The communication of disease by contact, or by the inhalation of the effluvia of a sick person. The property of a muscle which enables it to contract, or draw its extremities closer together. The tortuous foldings of the external surface of the brain.
Homer, Plutarch, Theophrastus, and Galen say that music cures rheumatism, the pests, and stings of reptiles, etc. Diemerbroeck, Bonet, Baglivi, Kercher, and Desault mention the efficacy of melody in phthisis, gout, hydrophobia, the bites of venomous reptiles, etc. There is a case in the Lancet of a patient in convulsions who was cured in the paroxysm by hearing the tones of music.
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