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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.'
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In The Mortality Bills, Pneumonia Is An

William Osler
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.'
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