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Any chronic febrile and suppurating disease, or with bodily wasting, and slowly mortal, could be a form of consumption.
Richard Morton in 1689 had distinguished fourteen kinds of consumption and Boissier de Sauvage, in 1759, listed more than twenty species.
Pulmonary consumption is the most common. She could represent what is now called pulmonary tuberculosis -
Brillonet - Theoretical And Practical Essay On Phthisis - 1759
Binding in good condition, work in its period brown full calfskin, covers and spine in good condition, rubbing from use, decorated ribbed spine, marbled edges, gilt titling on garnet morocco piece -
Interior in good condition, scattered dirt, pretty bands, beautiful initials, tailpieces, marbled flyleaves on the turnstile -
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