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She had survived two long stays in the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, listened through the endless nights to women coughing away their lives, watched in the morning when the cheerful, whistling orderlies gathered from the bedposts the bags stuffed with cloths soaked in blood and sputum, took the bags out past the dairy and set fire to them, warming themselves over bonfires made with the rags of the dying.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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She had survived two long stays in the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, listened through the endless nights to women coughing away their lives, watched in the morning when the cheerful, whistling orderlies gathered from the bedposts the bags stuffed with cloths soaked in blood and sputum, took the bags out past the dairy and set fire to them, warming themselves over bonfires made with the rags of the dying.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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She had survived two long stays in the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, listened through the endless nights to women coughing away their lives, watched in the morning when the cheerful, whistling orderlies gathered from the bedposts the bags stuffed with cloths soaked in blood and sputum, took the bags out past the dairy and set fire to them, warming themselves over bonfires made with the rags of the dying.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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In 1911, Pisko was appointed secretary of National Jewish Hospital (NJH) for Consumptives in Denver.
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Consumptives are warned against the many widely advertised cures, specifics, and special methods of treating consumption.
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Consumptives having an opportunity of entering a sanatorium, should do so at once.
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Sanatorium for Consumptives, State board of health, State board of soldiers 'relief.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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Consumptives are not allowed to spit where it will do harm, but they do and they always will.
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Consumptives, information for and those living with, III, 421.
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Is a perfect food for Consumptives, Invalids and Convalescents, retained by the most delicate stomach.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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