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asthma
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The Plague
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He found his first patient, an asthma case of long standing, in bed, in a room that served as both dining-room and bedroom and overlooked the street.†
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asthma = a common lung disorder characterized by wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and sometimes coughing
Only the old Spaniard whom Dr. Rieux was treating for asthma went on rubbing his hands and chuckling: "They're coming out, they're coming out," with senile glee.†
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Just the thing for asthma.†
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And when, at ten that evening, he parked his car outside the home of his old asthma patient-his last visit of the day-it was an effort for Rieux to drag himself from his seat.†
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He has also a good deal to say about Rieux's asthma patient.†
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He took to his bed and never left it again-but not because of his asthma, which would not have prevented his getting about.†
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Tarrou turned toward the house and Rieux did not see his face again until they were in the old asthma patient's TOOTH.†
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After a particularly tiring day, about ten o'clock Tarrou proposed to the doctor that they should go together for the evening visit to Rieux's old asthma patient.†
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The old asthma patient was bubbling over with excitement when Rieux and Tarrou visited him at the end of the week.†
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But Rieux was thinking of Cottard, and the dull thud of fists belaboring the wretched man's face haunted him as he went to visit his old asthma patient.†
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Definitions:

(1) (asthma)
a common lung disorder characterized by wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and sometimes coughing
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)