phthisis

I then forwarded the collection to Washington as ordered except one Ogalalla skull of a young squaw that died of phthisis.

The city is full of phthisis; the insanitary conditions under which the vast majority of the inhabitants live favour its rapid dissemination.

A toothache produces more violent convulsions of pain than a phthisis or a dropsy.

We must take the world as we find it, full of men and women predisposed to tubercular phthisis, and with no idea of its contagious nature.

In a few instances we found the lesions of chronic phthisis, which had, of course, existed before the attack of relapsing fever.