Note 19 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND CURE OF THE PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.
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Dr. Lind says, that out of 360 patients whom he attended between July 1st, 1758, and July 1st, 1760, in consumptions, the disease was brought on one fourth of them by falls, bruises, and strains, received a year or two before the disease made its appearance.