Word: dyspnea
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia. Before deciding that his patient has cancer, the careful doctor, from his store of knowledge and experience, which no laymen need doubt or seek to supplement, eliminates all other possibilities. However, the physician keeps a possible secondary lung involvement ever in mind...
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