Well, true, there is a number of diseases that can manifest in a sudden profuse hemoptysis, but I do not think Dickens was aware of them (not many physicians were). For Dickens (and his average reader) hemoptysis most of the time equalled consumption.
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Date: 2009-02-01 05:48 am (UTC)