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Excerpt from Simple Lessons on Tuberculosis or Consumption: For School Children of the Seventh and Eighth Grades
Tuberculosis and consumption are two names for one dis ease. The disease is caused by the growth and multiplica tion of a minute plant in the body of a person or an animal. The minute plant is called a bacillus, and is so small that it must be magnified several hundred times before it can be seen; it is spoken of as the tubercle bacillus or consumption germ.
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