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The lips and the eyes will give us no clew, for the former are red from fever, and the latter are bright from the gentle, half-dreamy state produced by the toxins of the disease, the so-called "_spes phthisica_" -- the everlasting and pathetic hopefulness of the consumptive.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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