Note 18 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND CURE OF THE PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.
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Sir George Baker relates, in the second volume of the Medical Transactions, that Dr. Blanchard had informed him, that he had seen the consumption brought on ten persons out of ninety, by excessive purging used to prepare the body for the small-pox. I have seen a case of consumption in a youth of 17, from the spitting produced by the intemperate use of segars.