He died of phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption) in Kislovodsk on and was buried there. Diseases like nightblindness, scurvy, intestinal diseases and phthisis were common. Vichitravirya was affected with phthisis, (tuberculosis) and died from the disease. During his mid-forties, Laycock suffered from phthisis (tuberculosis). Her father had died, aged 68, of pneumonic phthisis. Annie Lalor married Thomas Lempriere in 1882, but died three years later of pulmonary phthisis. This work, and a monograph on laryngeal phthisis, led to his early recognition in Paris. His studies included the epidemiology of phthisis and measles. Thea (Borelli) is sculptor who is diagnosed with phthisis before she marries Filippo (Habay). Hippocrates and many other at the time believed phthisis to be hereditary in nature. A more insidious killer than the accidents was miners' phthisis, dust on the lungs. X-rays were used to diagnose bone fractures, heart disease, and phthisis. Phthisis bulbi is a shrunken, non-functional eye. He died on 25 January 1880 of phthisis.