There I had it-the curt, unexpanded chronicle of two passionate lives.
"Hillsboro People"
Dorothy Canfield
It wastes less rapidly, it is feverish instead of having a lower temperature than natural, it seems less ill, and yet its death within a few weeks or months is absolutely certain; while the child whose lungs are not diseased but simply unexpanded may, if that accidental condition is removed, grow up to vigorous manhood.
"The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases"
Charles West, M.D.