Abstract
IN a work called “Opera nuova intitulata il Perche, utilissima ad intendere le cagioni de molte cose, &c.,” published in Venice in 1520, the following passage occurs:—“Dal sputo del Tisico o da la sua boca viene fuora un vapore fetido e acuto che entra poi per la boca de colui che conversa con quello e corrode simelmente il pulmone de esso e in questo modo genera tisica.”
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MCCLURE, E. The Propagation of Phthisis. Nature 68, 56 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068056c0
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