Sentence examples for cure consumption from inspiring English sources

Its boosters promised that the ocean air would cure consumption, rheumatism, eczema and (yes!) insanity.

His Grape Nuts were miraculously not only 'brain food' but could also cure consumption and malaria, and were even, despite their enamel-cracking hardness, said to be an antidote to loose teeth.

The set-up from dramatist G. B. Shaw In the play, Dr. Colenso Ridgeon has just been knighted for his work in developing a serum which, if inoculated at the most propitious moment, can completely cure consumption.

And the tuberculosis that felled him at the height of his powers at 37 may have been picked up from a boarder seeking "the cure" for consumption in the unspoiled mountain air of North Carolina.

Eighty-four hours per week -- that's the kind of schedule Americans worked more than 200 years ago, back when there was no cure for "consumption" and happiness was a revolutionary pursuit.

Her first student was Hiram Crafts, a shoe worker in whose house she stayed, who advertised for patients himself in May 1867, offering a cure for "Consumption, Catarrh, Scrofula, Dyspepsia and Rheumatism".

He is infatuated with the varieties of things, like cures for consumption: "Mineral salts, the snakebite remedy, decoctions of sulfur and clove, inunctions of iodine and creosote, tablets of strychnine and arsenic... cuppings and clysterings, poultices and vesicants, fly blisters and mustard plasters" and much more.

As director of the Scottish colorectal cancer screening programme, I was aware of the links between excessive red and cured meat consumption with this and other forms of cancer, yet I still ate one meal a day that contained it.

After the woman is sent to Switzerland to be cured of consumption, the boy begins his life alone with his father, who forces him to study late at night.

As director of the Scottish colorectal cancer screening programme, I was aware of the links between excessive red and cured meat consumption with this and other forms of cancer, yet I still ate one meal a day that contained it.

This effect is independent from cured meat/fish consumption.