Based on: Pulmonary Consumption: its Nature, Varieties and Treatment. With an Analysis of one thousand Cases to Exemplify its Duration. By C. J. B. Williams, M.D., F ...

When we reflect on the indisputable fact that of all the manifold diseases which afflict humanity there is none so frequent in its occurrence or so fatal in its issue as Pulmonary Consumption, and ...

municated.] SIR: As it is the aim of these letters to remove popular errors in regard to pulmonary diseases, permit me to say a few words on the curability of Consumption. It is not, I think ...

The theory broached by Dr. MacCormac is that phthisis or pulmonary consumption, as well as tubercle generally, is always and exclusively the result of the breathing of air that has already been ...

THE fact that consumption is the great destroyer of men and women in the prime of life, nearly one-eighth of all the deaths which occur being due to it, is more than sufficient to warrant any ...

The ghastly figures appeared as phantoms, but these were living, breathing people, though barely—their lungs had been ravaged by pulmonary consumption, later known as tuberculosis. Desperate for ...

However, new research from Sweden appears to breathe life into this field: Its findings suggest that moderate alcohol consumption may lower the risk of lung disease in men. Chronic Obstructive ...

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