Lucy knew, of course – and was aware that Vivian knew it too – that the possibility remained           that … osteogenic sarcome which Dr. Pearson had diagnosed might have metastasiged  ahead of the amputation. 

I developed … blister on my thumb and had to quit. 

Little Nancy has … backache and they’ve cabled her to go home.

The morning after the bridge party Mrs. Van Hopper woke with … sore throat and a temperature of a hundred and two. 

Think of patients lying in that racket after a serious abdominal or running a temperature of a hundred and four with … meningitis! 

It probably accounts for some of … flu you spoke of, but that is not too serious in itself. 

She coughed less too, as … pleurisy subsided but she grew tired in the divan bed though Bart had put a headrest to it to hold her pillows. 

Yes, you had found … diphtheria and … typhoid, and, if I am right, there were some outstanding, like … scarlet fever and … smallpox, that you called ultramicroscopia, and which you were still hunting for, and others that you didn’t even suspect.

After … typhoid she was just skin and bone.

Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich and poor, they all had two things in common, lice and … dysentery.