He had studied the diseases of the miners. He made them all march past with their awful details: anaemia, scrofula, black bronchitis, the asthma which chokes, and the rheumatism which paralyses.
Il avait étudié les maladies des mineurs, il les faisait défiler toutes, avec des détails effrayants: l'anémie, les scrofules, la bronchite noire, l'asthme qui étouffe, les rhumatismes qui paralysent.