Excerpt from Consumption and Tuberculosis: Their Proximate Cause and Specific Treatment by the Hypophosphites Upon the Principles of Stoechiological Medicine Mom: than one hundred thousand persons are now suffering in England from Consumption and the allied diseases of the tubercular type, of Whom sixty thou sand will have died within the year, leaving their places to be filled by an equal number of future victims. Of the whole number of adults doomed to die in the prime of life one third will be cut off by Consumption alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.