| 1 | Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there. | |
| 2 | My step-grandmother was thin and black in short height with serious tuberculosis. | |
| 3 | After a couple of years, we heard that she had developed consumption, and had also become addicted to opium. | |
| 4 | In 1815, one in four deaths in England was of consumption; | |
| 5 | She knew he was consumptive, his cheeks were so red and he was so uncommon thin in the waist. |