Here, they say, in this atmosphere, is the place for consumptives and there are very many to be seen.
In most instances consumptiveshave not large enough chests.
It is well to avoid rooms occupied by consumptives who are not careful with their sputum.
The Kingsmere Hospital for Consumptives doubtless claims your care, so I shall be as brief as possible!
Once or twice I tried my best to induce her to explain to me the mysteries connected with Sir Charles Venner's secret society ofconsumptives which I had been unable to fathom.
Marshalsea doesn't save many of the consumptiveswho come to its gates.
Non-consumptives it does save, indirectly, since it removes from a susceptible environment, a certain number of spreaders of infection.
The consumptives are deprived of air, immured in the shop or block, and in the evening locked in the cells.
Now the tasks have been increased, and even the sick and consumptives are forced to work.
The matter coughed up and sneezed out by consumptives is full of | | living germs or "tubercle bacilli" too small to be seen.
Flies may carry the virus if they are allowed to frequent cuspidors into which consumptives have expectorated.
In the case of consumptives very great attention should be paid to ventilation, and to the alimentation both of the patient and the attendants.
The physician with a bad cough and broken-down constitution is still prescribing for consumptives and patients with all manner of aches and pains, of which his own body is a perfect index.
The Board of Trustees of the Hospitals for Consumptiveshas 1.
On the contrary, it was found that Salvia acts even more favorably on the tickling coughs with consumptives than Belladonna, Rumex crispus, etc.
The destruction of the sputum of consumptives should be a routine measure in both hospitals and private practice.
The nursing and care of consumptives involves very slight risks indeed, if proper precautions are taken.
The sputum of consumptivesshould be carefully collected and destroyed.
It is well worth while to give them a careful explanation of what we know of the effect of altitude upon consumptiveswho have sufficient reactionary power to stand it.
Without such a rule the midday meal, if taken in common by the large number of consumptives present, would be a pandemonium of coughing.
The rule in the German sanatoria for consumptives is that whenever this happens they must, after a short interval, repeat the whole meal.
He once referred to consumptives as "beyond all measure the keenest sufferers of all the stricken of this world," and he knew what he was talking about.
It has suggestions to consumptives born out of his own experience.
The Last Year One of the pieces of advice that Lanier gave to consumptives who went to Florida for their health was, "Set out to get well, with the thorough assurance that consumption is curable.
Equability and dryness are the essentials of a climate in which consumptives are to receive new or lengthened leases of life.
Consumptives should be careful to remember their great responsibility in forming alliances whereby this terrible evil is perpetuated.
There is no counting all the miracles: deaf women and dumb women have recovered their faculties, faces disfigured by sores have become as smooth as the hand, moribund consumptives have come to life again and eaten and danced!
Not even the most simple precautions were taken, women were bathed at all times and seasons, perspiring consumptives were plunged into the icy water, sores were left to their putrefaction without any thought of employing antiseptics.
And as nobody dared to open the windows on account of the consumptives in the carriage, the heat was soon felt and an unbearable odour arose, set free as it were by the jolting of the train as it went its way at express speed.
Alcoholic liquors are of damage to consumptives because they tend to impair nutrition, disturb the action of the stomach, and give a false strength to the invalid on which he is sure to presume.
You will like to watch the processes of pickling olives and pressing out the clear amber oil, which is now used by consumptives in preference to the cod-liver oil.
If consumptives must go away from the comforts of home, this is a haven of rest for them.
Probably the most serious source of infection which one is liable to encounter in the usual ways of life is the occupancy at hotels of bed-rooms vacated by consumptives without subsequent efficient cleansing, and travel in sleeping cars.
If the patient can afford it, it is best to go to one of the Sanatoria for consumptives in order that he may see how the fresh air cure is practically carried out.
Consumptives are more often sent to Newport for cure, nowadays, than away from it.
Consumptives were as thick as English sparrows in Colorado and I saw ample evidences of the disease in all its horrible details.
I visited a few places in this hot southwestern country where it is alleged that consumptives in all stages soon recover and grow fat.
The native consumptives went elsewhere in search of health, it being another case of "green hills far away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consumptives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
