Consumption and the Breath Rebreathed: Being a Sequel to the Authors Treatise on Consumption (Classic Reprint)

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Preface introduction Consumption not hereditary Robins views Cause of tubercle stated Connexion of respiration with animal combustion Evil agency of the breath rebreathed Villemin, Niemeyer, Waldenburg, Louis, and Bayle cited. Tubercle not a ferment nor the result of inflammation Prevalence of phthisis in Australia, in the United States Tubercle is not absent on high levels, does not ensue from cold The needfulness of continually renewed air Connection of phthisis with crowding, with rebreathed air Testimony of Mulvany, of Clark, of Hospital Surgeon, of Blake Prevalence of consumption in localities in other respects health'y Mortality from phthisis in England, Russia, France, Where prebreathed air is agam breathed, there consumption begins.

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