tuberculous
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Diseases like the Spanish flu and tuberculous raced through the overcrowded schools.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Disease, particularly tuberculous and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed World War I, swept through the overcrowded dorms.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
Hollow-chested, tuberculous Jeanson escaped the police raid that caught his followers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found her almost comatose, kept up Burkhardt's precautionary measures, and started additional injections of isoniazid and streptomycin to attack the suspected tuberculous infection.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a matter of fact, Bacillinum contains in its elements everything that a cavity of a tuberculous lung is capable of containing; that is to say, many other things besides Koch's bacillus.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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