In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'
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