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  1. Relating to or affected with tabes; losing flesh, weight, or strength; thin; wasted by disease; marcid. In tabid persons milk is the best restorative. Arbuthnot, Aliments, i.

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  • There be some who do give these tabid or consumptives a certain posset made with lime-water and anise and liquorice and raisins of the sun, and there be other some who do give the juice of craw-fishes boiled in barley-water with chicken-broth, but these be toys, as I do think, and ye shall find as good virtue, nay better, in this syrup of the simple called Maidenhair Something after this manner might Master Giles Firmin have delivered his clinical instructions. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Blunt released a statement today saying the 6000 pages of emails prove "he did nothing wrong" http: / / www. ktts.com / tabid / 4882 / xmid / 27351 / Default. aspx Latest Breaking News —  Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
  • There be some who do give these tabid or consumptives a certain posset made with lime-water and anise and liquorice and raisins of the sun, and there be other some who do give the juice of craw-fishes boiled in barley-water with chicken-broth, but these be toys, as I do think, and ye shall find as good virtue, nay better, in this syrup of the simple called Maidenhair. " —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Here is a link to some recent interviews Newt has had on the topic if you want to know more: http://newt.org/tabid/193/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4604/Default.aspx —  Latest Articles
  • Very related is this true story about Rhode Island using electronic data 2 track pig flu. http://www. medconnect.com.au/tabid/84/ct1/c333959/U-S-State-of-Rhode-Island-Using-Electronic-Prescribing-Data-to-Track-H1N1 -/Default. aspx —  Latest Articles
 

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  1. from French tabide = Spanish tábido = Portuguese Italian tabido, from Latin tabidus, melting or wasting away, decaying, pining, from tabere, melt, waste away: see tabes.
 

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