In the vast majority of instances, diseases of the heart are not necessarily speedily fatal.

He came into my ward at Nashville with violent symptoms of a half-dozen speedily fatal diseases.

Duncan fell, not even uttering a groan, so speedily fatal was the blow he had received.

There the fevers are much more virulent and more speedily fatal than here, for from 8 Deg.

This is followed, if the attack does not prove speedily fatal, by restlessness, and later by mild delirium and some fever.

Yet it was just this final concession, the chief and original object of British policy, that proved speedily fatal to the whole settlement.

In most cases in which the disease has had a very speedily fatal termination, an examination has shown that the larynx was its chief seat.