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From: Elizabeth Cunningham <>
Subject: Re: [PAPHL] Re: PAPHILAD-D Digest V05 #258
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:37:05 -0400
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The word is probably phthisis (I hope I spelled it right) -- the old
name for tuberculosis.

Elizabeth C

wrote:

>Is anyone on the list familiar with Valley Forge Hospital in 1906? Was it a
>military hospital then or possibly a facility for people with tuberculosis?
>On the death certf. of an uncle the doctors memo said that he(my uncle) had
>been living there a month or possibly longer before his death. He actually died
>at his family home in Phila. Cause of death is Pulminary (plitusn-this word
>is difficult to read) entered on the death certf. Thanks,
> Peg
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