phthisis

• At last I discovered a cure for phthisis, which is also known as Phthœ, a disease for many centuries deemed incurable, and I healed many who are alive to this day as easily as I have cured the Gallicus morbus . —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
• Like yellow fever, phthisis, and some diseases, as well as many other social afflictions and customs, eunuchism does not seem to flourish beyond certain degrees of north and south latitudes,--a fact that probably assisted Montesquieu to arrive at the conclusion that climate was a powerful factor in all things Bergmann, of Strasburg, quotes the ancient traditions, wherein it is stated that man was taught the art of castration by the brute creation. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• I tried once to elicit some facts from a large experience of a particular disease, phthisis pulmonalis, and, as the results of this attempt may be useful, I put them briefly on record At a public institution at which large numbers of persons afflicted with chest diseases applied for medical assistance, and at which I was for many years one of the physicians, I made notes during a short portion of the time of the connection that existed between race and the particular disease I have instanced--phthisis pulmonalis, or pulmonary consumption. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• In the nineteenth volume of the "Archives de Médecine Navale," Rey mentions that at the Easter Island pulmonary phthisis is the dominant affection with the adults, and that scrofula is very prevalent with the children. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• Even if the overwhelmingly larger part of mankind suffered from phthisis, the few who were free from it would be recognized as well and all the others would be considered ill. —  Psychotherapy

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