10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHTHISICAL»
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phthisical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
phthisical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ocular Trauma: Principles and Practice
It is increasingly common for ophthalmologists treating patients with severe eye
injuries to observe during follow-up eyes that have an attached retina but are
gradually becoming phthisical because of ciliary body nonfunction or dysfunction
...
Ferenc Kuhn, Dante J. Pieramici, 2011
2
The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or ...
Thus, the Hospital Report compares the phthisical patients with insane patients,
among whom ll-9 per cent. of males and 13-4 per cent. of females are descended
from insane parents.* Therefore, say the Reporters, as no doubt can exist that ...
3
British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review
Of 284 non-phthisical persons, 47 (16-55 per 100) sprang from either a phthisical
father or mother. (2.) Of 284 non-phthisical persons, 134 (47-11 per 100) were
free from paternal or maternal taint. § 10. Collating these results with those ...
Amongst other conclusions, Dr. C.'s investigations lead him to the following, viz.,
that the excess of waste, popularly known to affect the external parts, does not,
always, at least, extend to the interior in like manner in phthisical ...
We for the present pass over the results obtained from throwing the two series,
male and female, into one, and turn to the comparison of the inferences just set
down, with those obtainable from fairly comparable series of non-phthisical
persons ...
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
... been considered as beneficial to phthisical patients ; and Laennec found that
even an artificial marine atmosphere, produced by the exhalation from sea-weed,
was not without some good effects on those who were submitted to its influence.
7
The Science and Practice of Medicine
Phthisical persons spring from a phthisical source with a certain amount of
frequency ; and that freedom from taint in parentage is probably more rare, and
the existence of such taint probably more common, in phthisical than in non-
phthisical ...
William Aitken, Meredith Clymer, 1868
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The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
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The Medical times: a journal of medical science, literature, ...
We for the present pass over the results obtained from throwing the two series,
male and female, into one, and turn to the comparison of the inferences just set
down, with those obtainable from fairly comparable series of non-phthisical
persons ...
10
A Campaign Against Consumptioon a Collection of Papers ...
in other words, about 39 per cent. of these deaths were from phthisis. All these
several considerations have to be taken into account in judging of the proportion
of phthisical deaths that may rightly be ascribed to hereditary influence ; and, ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHTHISICAL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
phthisical is used in the context of the following news items.
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Removal of a blind eye is carried out in a phthisical eye, whereby the blind eye is shrunken and unsightly. This is done for cosmetic reasons. «The Star Online, Oct 14»
How It Was: Psychiatry, Madness, and Infections in the 19th and …
Clouston's idea of "phthisical insanity" was taken seriously and intensely debated in the psychiatric community, even after the discovery of the ... «Huffington Post, Feb 10»
Little, Big: Tasha Robinson's comments
... their meanings, and words I had to look up (operose, phthisical, milliards), and stories like August's with threads that disappear and reappear, ... «A.V. Club, Aug 09»
