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Show Squint and Tuberculosis. Squint is a sign of a predisposi-tion predisposi-tion to tuberculosis, according to Dr. W. C. Rivers, who writes to the Lan-set Lan-set announcing it, and adding that the only previous observation of the kind is by Homer, whose picture of Ther-sites Ther-sites 'Cross-eyed he was, and halting moved on legs Ill-paired; his gibbous shoulders o'er his breast Contracted, pinched it ... " was, according to Doctor Rivers, "drawn from a tuberculosis cripple of soured disposition." |