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- noun Alternative form of
peripneumonia .
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Examples
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While he was in Charleston his father wrote to him of the dangerous illness of his mother with what he called a "peripneumony," which, from the description, must have been the term used in those days for pneumonia.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831
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While he was in Charleston his father wrote to him of the dangerous illness of his mother with what he called a “peripneumony,” which, from the description, must have been the term used in those days for pneumonia.
Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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It is employed as a febrifuge in dyspepsia, pleurisy, and chronic peripneumony.
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A pleurisy or peripneumony, for instance, is a general disease, though the chief seat of the symptoms seems confined to a portion of the thorax: but the affection of this part, though it may be somewhat greater than that of any other equal part, is vastly less than the affection or diathesis diffused over the whole body.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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Gout likewise appears like a sthenic disease, and in inflammation takes place, which resembles pleurisy or peripneumony; but this symptom is fallacious, for it depends on debility, and is only to be cured by means, which in pleurisy and peripneumony, would produce death.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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In this way is produced rheumatism, catarrh, or, as it is commonly called, a cold, and peripneumony.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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In the year 1781 he had a severe peripneumony, from which he recovered with difficulty.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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Lady, then upon a visit in London, was attacked with severe symptoms of peripneumony.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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I had attended this lady last winter in a very severe peripneumony, from which she narrowly escaped with her life.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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One lady, whom I attended, had twice at some years interval a locked jaw, which relieved a pain on her sternum with peripneumony.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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