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Excerpt from Consumption, as Engendered by Rebreathed Air and Consequent Arrest of the Unconsumed Carbonaceous Waste, Its Prevention and Possible Cure
Tubercle, in other words the arrested because unburnt carbonaceous waste, is the substance and no other whose presence entails consumption and scrofula in every degree. It is the very essence and indoles of these maladies, their sufficient reason and sole material cause, for without tubercle there can be no scrofula, and without un urut carbon there can be no tubercle. Tubercle in fact is no other that the arrested because unoxidised carbonaceous waste, in fine the detained metamorphic refuse of the living organism, detained by reason of imperfect defective respiratory function. This detained waste gathers in the blood, and when the blood can no longer hold it, for its powers in this respect are limited, it is laid down per force in the living tissues deranging their action and causing rottenness and decay. 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.
